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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that explores the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, and analyzes the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies.
Trade Review“
Gay Latino Studies is a startlingly original collection of essays on the culture and social worlds of gay Latinos. Using a wonderful format that pairs essays with response pieces, the book as a whole reads like a sparkling conversation full of wit, insight, cultural relevance, and political critique. Covering topics from gay shame and shamelessness, to dance and sexual identity, to the impact of HIV on gay Latino communities,
Gay Latino Studies will quickly find its way onto bookshelves and into classrooms around the world.”—
Judith Halberstam, author of
Female Masculinity“This collection will be an indispensable reference for any scholar working in queer or Latina/o studies. With its broad disciplinary and theoretical scope, it effectively establishes the field of gay Latino studies. It will shape the questions posed in this realm of study for some time to come.”—
Ramón Saldívar, author of
The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary“
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader is a collection of essays that's a literate
chinga tu madre to the heteronormativity that's still endemic in Mexican (and Latino) society. Remember, gentle raza readers: We can't be homophobes and whine about Mexi discrimination in the same breath. Help eradicate H8 by buying this libro.” -- Gustavo Arellano * "Ask a Mexican" column *
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Gay Latino Studies is an important reader that will be useful to students and scholars in a range of disciplines, including American, Chicano, Latino, and ethnic studies; queer, feminist, and gender studies; and performance studies, English, and sociology. . . .
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader will be a valuable reference work for any university or personal library, for readers familiar with the themes and debates in gay Latino and Chicano studies, and for readers who are just entering these vital conversations.” -- Marci L. Carrasquillo * MELUS *
“I breathe a sigh of relief with the publication of
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Even before it existed, it was missing. . . . The chapters are speaking to each other, having conversations. This format invites readers to listen and chime in. . . . And that’s what’s so cool about
Gay Latino Studies for me. It feels familiar, like I know these brothers, and I do. Like I’m in those pages here and there, and I am.” -- Tatiana de la Tierra * La Bloga *
"I’ve been waiting for a book like this – as personal and intellectually stimulating as this one – for over a decade. A book that uses, and yet does not take for granted, the very categories that inspire its existence. This inspiring compilation of chapters (some of which have been published in the previous decade) followed by recent critiques effectively offers a critical studies reader that moves between the categories, gay and queer, in complex ways. This, for some of us, is inevitably our bible." -- Salvador Vidal-Ortiz * Latino Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction. Re-membering Gay Latino Studies / Michael Hames García and Ernesto J. Martínez 1
Queer Theory Revisited / Michael Hames García 19
Comment. It's All in Having a History / María Lugones 46
Gay Shame, Latina- and Latino-Style: A Critique of White Queer Performativity / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 55
Comment / Ramón García 81
The Place of Gay Male Chicano Literature in Queer Chicana/o Work / Antonio Viego 86
Comment. Our Queer Kin / Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel 105
Carnal Knowledge: Chicano Gay Men and the Dialectics of Being / Richard T. Rodríguez 113
Comment. Entre Machos y Maricones: (Re)Covering Chicano Gay Male (Hi)Stories / Daniel Enrique Pérez 141
Entre Hombres/Between Men: Latino Masculinities and Homosexualities / Lionel Cantú 147
Comment. The Material and Cultural Worlds of Latino Gay Men / Tomás Almaguer 168
Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: Predicaments of Identity and Visibility in San Francisco in the 1990s / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez 175
Comment / Ramón A. Gutiérrez 198
Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's
The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs) / José Esteban Muñoz 204
Comment. Never Too Much: Queer Performance between Impossibility and Excess / Ricardo L. Ortíz 220
Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation: Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form / Ernesto J. Martínez 226
Comment. Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil is Gay / Paula M. L. Moya 250
Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 259
Comment / Daniel Contreras 281
Dance Liberation / David Román 286
Comment. Dance with Me / Frances Negrón-Muntaner 311
Bibliography 321
Contributors 349
Index 353
