Yeidy M. Rivero is a Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on media history, media and globalization, and race and ethnic representations in media. She is the author of Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television (Duke University Press, 2005) and Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960 (Duke University Press, 2015). Additionally, Rivero co-edited (with Arlene Dávila) Contemporary Latino Media: Production, Circulation, Politics (New York University Press, 2015). Her current book in progress is Nueva Yores: New York City’s Media and the Representation of Latina/o Identities, 1960s-1990s.