Now, after 15 years of waiting, Valdes-Rodriguez announced in the same conversation that she was “about to sign a movie deal” to adapt the book on her own terms with the Afro-Latino characters included. As for the recent conversation around Afro-Latino representation in Hollywood, the author dropped her take: “Make no mistake – the erasure is intentional, because the US idea that “blacks and Latinos” are distinct groups fighting for the crown of “most adored Other” is nothing short of Machiavellian.” “I always shut it down because they always want to resort to inaccurate stereotypes that serve power,” she wrote in the Twitter thread. She was named among the 25 most influential Hispanics in the nation by Time magazine. Author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez June 21, 2021Īn on-screen adaptation of The Dirty Girls Social Club never came to fruition as Valdes-Rodriguez has declined any developments that don’t fit the necessary representation. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez 203 Paperback 43 offers from 3.36 Editorial Reviews About the Author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is a New York Times bestselling author with more than 1 million books in print. At the event, Valdes-Rodriguez will be interviewed by.
to 3:00 p.m., at Berklee's Recital Hall 1A, located at 1140 Boylston Street, in Boston. I'd rather be truthful about history and merely an author without a film or series, I said, than sell out to ongoing erasure of African disapora in Latin America. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez '92, best-selling author, two-time Pulitzer Prizenominated journalist, and Berklee educated saxophonist, presents a free public forum on Thursday, September 30, from 1:00 p.m. If working in Hollywood meant lying about afrolatinos, bye. “She and producer Lynette Ramirez told me ‘no one wants to see black people on TV & black Latinos confuse America.’” “Not sure who needs to hear this but I burned my deal at NBC to the ground when producer Ann López erased all the #afrolatino characters in my book,” she claimed via Twitter earlier this week. When she read the tv-made pilot by Lisa Leschin, she called it “racist.” Eleven years later, Valdes-Rodriguez still isn’t holding back about the situation and exposing more of what allegedly happened. The book’s original storyline follows a group of six Latina friends who met in college, with two of the main characters being Afro-Latina.
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Valdes-Rodriguez has previously shared her attempts in getting a TV series based on her 2003 book The Dirty Girls Social Club off the ground at NBC in 2010.
The New York Times best-selling author took to Twitter to share her own experience on the topic from over a decade ago. With the heightened discussion around colorism and the erasure of Afro-Latinos in Hollywood following the recent criticism of In The Heights, author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is now joining the conversation.
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