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May 16 2011 Issue

Leveling the Playing Field

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Leveling the Playing Field

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Arts and Media May 2011 Premium

Michigan Professor Chronicles the Power of TV by <b> Clay Latimer </b>

Yeidy Rivero was where she liked to be best on a recent weekday night –sitting in her Ann Arbor home, watching TV for several hours. But it wasn’t to unwind. Watching television is Rivero’s profession. As associate professor in the University of Michigan’s Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, and the Program of American Culture, she studies the medium and its relationship with culture and race, with a special emphasis on subjects of interest to Hispanics.