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On August 14, 2010, the show Dora the Explorer celebrated the tenth anniversary of its premiere on Nickelodeon. Over the past decade Dora, a seven-year-old Latina character, has taken millions of preschoolers and their parents on interactive journeys in problem solving while teaching them simple phrases in Spanish along the way. In interviews about the tenth anniversary series creators and show runners Chris Gifford and Valerie Walsh Valdes reinforced the notion that Dora was a character who “turned fairy tales on their head,” and traditional notions of gender along with them. Yet for most commentaries on Dora, it is her Latina ethnicity and her bilingual communication skills that generate the most interest. We now know from previous chapters the peril of this kind of attempted construction of ethnicity and gender as mutually exclusive.
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Hancock, AM. (2011). Viva Exploradora Dora: Intersectionality’s Contributions to Public Policy. In: Solidarity Politics for Millennials. The Politics of Intersectionality. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230120136_5
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