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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787037103321

Autore

Viteri María Amelia

Titolo

Desbordes : translating racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender identities across the Americas / / María-Amelia Viteri ; foreword by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5336-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, Genders in the Global South

Disciplina

306.76/6098

Soggetti

Gay people - Latin America - Identity

Gay people - 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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.