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Desbordes : Translating Racial, Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Identities Across the Americas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series, Genders in the Global South SeriesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (202 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438453361
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: DesbordesLOC classification:
  • HQ76.3.L29 -- .V57 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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