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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a breath of fresh air. Kristie Soares recuperates joy and its multiple Latinx variants, such as
gozando,
choteo, and silliness, as radical empowering practices. It is a brilliant challenge to critical approaches that only focus on Latinx negative affect.”--Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, author of
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans PerformanceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Dancing in My Parents’ Living Room and Other Stories About Joy
- Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa
- Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party
- Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?
- Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival
- Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull’s Miami
Coda Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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