{"product_id":"gay-latino-studies-9780822349372","title":"Gay Latino Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGay Latino Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eGay Latino Studies\u003c\/i\u003e will quickly find its way onto bookshelves and into classrooms around the world.”—\u003cb\u003eJudith Halberstam\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—\u003cb\u003eRamón Saldívar\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays that's a literate \u003ci\u003echinga tu madre \u003c\/i\u003eto 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 *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGay Latino Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. . . . \u003ci\u003eGay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader \u003c\/i\u003ewill 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 *\u003cbr\u003e“I breathe a sigh of relief with the publication of \u003ci\u003eGay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eGay Latino Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Re-membering Gay Latino Studies \/ Michael Hames García and Ernesto J. Martínez 1\u003cbr\u003e Queer Theory Revisited \/ Michael Hames García 19\u003cbr\u003e Comment. It's All in Having a History \/ María Lugones 46\u003cbr\u003e Gay Shame, Latina- and Latino-Style: A Critique of White Queer Performativity \/ Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 55\u003cbr\u003e Comment \/ Ramón García 81\u003cbr\u003e The Place of Gay Male Chicano Literature in Queer Chicana\/o Work \/ Antonio Viego 86\u003cbr\u003e Comment. Our Queer Kin \/ Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel 105\u003cbr\u003e Carnal Knowledge: Chicano Gay Men and the Dialectics of Being \/ Richard T. Rodríguez 113\u003cbr\u003e Comment. Entre Machos y Maricones: (Re)Covering Chicano Gay Male (Hi)Stories \/ Daniel Enrique Pérez 141\u003cbr\u003e Entre Hombres\/Between Men: Latino Masculinities and Homosexualities \/ Lionel Cantú 147\u003cbr\u003e Comment. The Material and Cultural Worlds of Latino Gay Men \/ Tomás Almaguer 168\u003cbr\u003e Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: Predicaments of Identity and Visibility in San Francisco in the 1990s \/ Horacio N. Roque Ramírez 175\u003cbr\u003e Comment \/ Ramón A. Gutiérrez 198\u003cbr\u003e Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's \u003ci\u003eThe Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs)\u003c\/i\u003e \/ José Esteban Muñoz 204\u003cbr\u003e Comment. Never Too Much: Queer Performance between Impossibility and Excess \/ Ricardo L. Ortíz 220\u003cbr\u003e Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation: Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form \/ Ernesto J. Martínez 226\u003cbr\u003e Comment. Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil is Gay \/ Paula M. L. Moya 250\u003cbr\u003e Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative \/ Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 259\u003cbr\u003e Comment \/ Daniel Contreras 281\u003cbr\u003e Dance Liberation \/ David Román 286\u003cbr\u003e Comment. Dance with Me \/ Frances Negrón-Muntaner 311\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 321\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 349\u003cbr\u003e Index 353","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359231017303,"sku":"9780822349372","price":109.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822349372.jpg?v=1754124052","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gay-latino-studies-9780822349372","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}