Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine, and the Many Faces of Scarface
• Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the Criminalized City
• Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death of Pablo Escobar
• Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia
• Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama
• Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border
• Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar Transformed
• Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”: Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Selected Filmography
• Bibliography
• Index

Jason Ruiz is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire.