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“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 Performance

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Dancing in My Parents’ Living Room and Other Stories About Joy

  1. Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa
  2. Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party
  3. Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?
  4. Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival
  5. Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull’s Miami

Coda Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Notes

Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 10/3/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252045295, 978-0252045295
      ISBN10: 0252045297
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      Trade 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 Performance

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: Dancing in My Parents’ Living Room and Other Stories About Joy

      1. Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa
      2. Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party
      3. Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?
      4. Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival
      5. Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull’s Miami

      Coda Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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