View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Florida International University College of Law FIU Law Review Volume 3 Number 2 Article 9 Spring 2008 Latino Masculinities Under the Microscope: Stereotyping and Counterstereotyping on Five Seasons of CSI: Miami Diane J. Klein University of La Verne College of Law, Ontario Follow this and additional works at: https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview Part of the Other Law Commons Online ISSN: 2643-7759 Recommended Citation Diane J. Klein, Latino Masculinities Under the Microscope: Stereotyping and Counterstereotyping on Five Seasons of CSI: Miami, 3 FIU L. Rev. 395 (2008). Available at: https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/lawreview/vol3/iss2/9 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by eCollections. It has been accepted for inclusion in FIU Law Review by an authorized editor of eCollections. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Latino Masculinities Under the Microscope: Stereotyping and Counterstereotyping on Five Seasons of CSI: Miami ∗ Diane J. Klein I. INTRODUCTION:LATCRIT AND/AS CULTCRIT Between its premiere in the fall of 2002 and the summer of 2007, more than 125 hour-long episodes of CSI: Miami aired on CBS in the United States, and on many other stations worldwide. It is now entering its seventh season, and has been, at times, the most-watched television program on the planet.1 This top-rated show brings images of Miami, Florida, and its inha- bitants—men and women of all races, ethnicities, national origins, immigra- tion statuses, and linguistic competencies—to many North Americans who live in communities almost devoid of Latina/o inhabitants, to the great Lati- na/o population centers in the U.S., and to millions of non-U.S.