Desbordes : Translating Racial, Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Identities Across the Americas.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- SUNY Series, Genders in the Global South Series .
- SUNY Series, Genders in the Global South Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On Writing and Research -- Chapter 1: Translating Sexual and Racial Borders -- Chapter 2: The Meanings around "Loca": Revisiting Language, Space, and Sexuality -- Is "Loca" sort of "Queer"? -- Translocations -- Performing "Queer"/"Latinidad" -- Bisexuals, Machorras, Transfeministas, Fuertes, Locas -- When "Queer Fits" -- Chapter 3: "Latino" and "Queer" as Sites of Translation: Intersections of "Race," Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality -- On "Latinidad": Estrella's Story -- Trans Conflations of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality -- "I Am 'American.' I Am No Different than You" -- They Cannot Know That I Am "Gay" Unless They See My Keychain (No Pueden Saber Si Soy "Gay" a Menos Que Vean Mi Llavero) -- Somos Hermanos. Es Nuestro Himno: Translating the U.S. National Anthem -- Chapter 4: Inserting the "I" in the Fieldwork -- On Being "Native" in Anthropology -- Geography Matters -- "You Are Not White": "Whiteness," Citizenship, and "Latinidad" -- Visibly "Queer" -- Invisible "Mestiza" -- From Home to "Field" and Back: Disrupting the Linearity -- Chapter 5: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Examines the intersections of "Latino," "queer," and "American," to illustrate how the categories of class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity are directly entangled with issues of citizenship and belonging.
9781438453361
Gays-Latin America-Identity. Gays-United States-Identity. Gay immigrants-United States. Latin Americans-United States. United States-Emigration and immigration-Social aspects. Latin America-Emigration and immigration-Social aspects.