ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: Nathian Shae Rodriguez, a journalism and media studies professor at SDSU, teaches a class inspired by the late pop star and her legacy. The course is called 'Selena & Latinx Media Representation.'
A portrait of the late singer Selena Quintanilla is seen in the crowd following a posthumous star ceremony for Quintanilla on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Los Angeles.
Selena Quintanilla-Perez, the late pop star known as “The Queen of Tejano,” died 27 years ago Thursday. At the height of her career, she was a superstar caught between two cultures. She was just crossing over successfully to the English-speaking music world when she died., a journalism and media studies professor at SDSU, teaches a class inspired by the late pop star and her legacy. The course is called"Selena & Latinx Media Representation."
"She's a pocha just like i am," Rodriguez said."Pocha traditionally is a pejorative that Spanish speakers would call non-native Spanish speakers because they didn't speak Spanish correctly. And since then it's kind of been used as a term of empowerment and a reclaimed term to basically describe somebody who is comfortable with their identity and their in between English and Spanish — doesn't really speak the best of both but is who they are exactly.
Rodriguez joined KPBS Midday Edition to talk about Selena's legacy and her impact on the conversation on Mexican-American identity.
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