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Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920's to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000's, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous. Yet some Latina actresses became stars by embracing and manipulating these stereotypical fantasies. Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, Priscilla Peña Ovalle focuses on the careers of Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Carmen Miranda, Rita Moreno, and Jennifer Lopez. Dance and the Hollywood Latina helps readers better understand how the United States grapples with race, gender, and sexuality through dancing bodies on screen.

Sex in motion pictures. --- Race in motion pictures. --- Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. --- Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses. --- Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry. --- Hispanic Americans in motion pictures. --- Sex in moving-pictures --- Motion pictures --- Erotic films --- Pornographic films --- Dance in television --- Dance on television --- Dancing in motion pictures, television, etc. --- Dancing in moving-pictures, television, etc. --- Television --- Motion picture actors and actresses, Hispanic American --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Motion picture industry --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Film --- United States --- United States of America