Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces (Sexual Cultures, 24) - Softcover

Rodríguez, Juana María

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814775500 ISBN 13: 9780814775509

Publisher: NYU Press, 2008

Synopsis

According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a Latin Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in relation to Latino/a America remains under examined.
Juana María Rodríguez attempts to rectify this dearth of scholarship in Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces, by documenting the ways in which identities are transformed by encounters with language, the law, culture, and public policy. She identifies three key areas as the project’s case studies: activism, primarily HIV prevention; immigration law; and cyberspace. In each, Rodríguez theorizes the ways queer Latino/a identities are enabled or constrained, melding several theoretical and methodological approaches to argue that these sites are complex and dynamic social fields.
As she moves the reader from one disciplinary location to the other, Rodríguez reveals the seams of her own academic engagement with queer latinidad. This deftly crafted work represents a dynamic and innovative approach to the study of identity formation and representation, making a vital contribution to a new reformulation of gender and sexuality studies.

About this title

Book Description:

The author documents the ways in which identity formation and representation within the gay Latinidad population impacts gender and cultural studies today.

About the Author:

Juana María Rodríguez is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0814775500
• ISBN 13: 9780814775509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227