@article {Casillas:2018:0005-2604:61,
title = "The Accent on Modern Family: Listening to Representations of the Latina Vocal Body",
journal = "Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies",
parent_itemid = "infobike://csrc/aztlan",
publishercode ="csrc",
year = "2018",
volume = "43",
number = "1",
publication date ="2018-03-15T00:00:00",
pages = "61-88",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0005-2604",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/csrc/aztlan/2018/00000043/00000001/art00004",
author = "Casillas, Dolores In{\’e}s and Ferrada, Juan Sebastian and Hinojos, Sara Veronica",
abstract = "This essay reviews eight seasons of the television series Modern Family, with a close examination of the scripted dialogue used in the first season, when Colombian actor Sof{\’ı}a Vergara crafts the sitcom's popular character of Gloria Delgado-Pritchett. Specifically, we
pay overdue attention to the use of Gloria's accent and her grammatically incorrect English as a technique to racialize her as a Latina character. A textual analysis of the show's first season (200910), consisting of twenty-four episodes, found ten episodes that featured scenes in which
Gloria's Spanish-accented English or her use of English words was mocked on the show. Gloria's interaction with the show's white characters often used her accent or word choice for comedic effect and for structuring racial and gendered hierarchies. Ultimately, Sof{\’ı}a Vergara's personification
of Gloria provides an interstitial space in which the character's visual aesthetics (color, hair, curves) and language (accent, speech) function as signifiers of Latinidad and in this way racialize both her visual and vocal body.",
}