the reality genre highlights the particular narratives that we tell about brown bodies, how they dovetail with those about Black bodies, and how they stand on their own. We can then see how these controlling images of Latinx people—as refusing to play nicely or to assimilate and as purveyors of violence and crime—help to enforce the physical separation of particular categories of people. For example, these very narratives converge in political rhetoric about immigration. In its paucity of Latinx characters, and its representations of the ones that do appear, reality TV illuminates whose
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