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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 Sofía 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 (2009–10), 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, Sofía 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.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Ideal Type of the Modern Family -- 2 Family Ties: The Domain of Kinship -- 3 The Question of Private and Public Spheres -- 4 The Parental Role -- 5 Gender, Gender Differences, and Sexuality -- 6 The Conjugal Relationship -- 7 The French-Canadian Family -- 8 Contemporary Changes in the Family: What Do They Mean? -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

The Music Man -- Ole Cat Eyes -- This Is How Things Get Out of Hand -- Pops's Blood -- Love Makes a Family -- Light, Bright, and Almost White -- Queens of the Hill -- Whitebread -- The Big Uneasy -- Oreo -- A Shadow of Myself -- The House on the Hill -- While We're Still Talking -- Neecie -- Wild Child -- Making Do Without -- Don't Trust That Bitch -- The Boy Scout -- Acting White, Acting Black -- One Step Forward -- Truth, Lies, and Secrets -- Ole Hot Ass -- The Traveling Salesman -- Sissy-fied -- The Gaybies -- White Lies, Dark Secrets -- There's No Place like Home -- Shit Happens -- The Secret inside Her -- Dead or in Jail -- A Family of Choice -- The Wounds That Won't Heal -- Blood Is Thicker -- Sins of the Fathers -- Coming of Age -- All the Dirt -- The Truth Won't Set You Free -- One Last Time.