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"Rodriguez furthers her work . . . with an engaging writing
style that is poetic, personal, philosophical and theoretical. . .
. This book is highly recommended."
-- "Reforma Newsletter" "A fascinating critical approach to the
development of the so-called latinidad, i.e., the identity of
Latinos in the US. Unlike that in other ethno-queer studies,
Rodriguez's data and primary texts of analysis are not literary
works. Instead, this refreshing, funny, and daring book takes the
reader through unexplored queer Latino communities.... Highly
recommended."
-- "Choice"
"It is rare to find as vital and sassy and smart an essayist as
Juana RodrA-guez. She takes us through the intersections of culture
and theory in ways that compel us to rethink what queer does to
Latinidad as much as what Latinidad does to queer. She shows what
it means, politically and culturally, to read for the possibility
of survival and affirmation. She is careful, attentive, dynamic,
disorienting, and exhilarating as she reads political and cultural
events, literary and theoretical texts, and the nuances of language
use for a complex cultural subject in process. A fabulous
read."
--Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor at the University of
California at Berkeley
"Mapping slippery subjects outside of fixed identities, this
book is always against closure: Queer Latinidad at its best."
--JosA(c) Quiroga, author of "Tropics of Desire: Interventions from
Queer Latino America"
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 popularculture suggest a Latin
Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in
relation to Latino/a America remains under examined.
Juana MarA-a RodrA-guez 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, RodrA-guez 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, RodrA-guez 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.
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