Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualites (Hardcover)

"Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualities "is an interdisciplinary project that weaves ethnographic interviewing with the analysis of texts and material culture to study the intersection of gayness with Latinidad. Unlike other academic treatments of the subject matter, it grounds its argument in an ethnoracial context and takes as point of departure that what needs to be studied explained is gayness not Latinidad. The book argues that gayness is a social formation structured by the racial distinction between blackness and whiteness in the United States and that, as such, the formation gayness is not racially or nationally innocent. Thus, Latinidad, thoroughly shaped by mythologies of racial syncretism, provides a perfect contrast in teasing out the racial undergirding of American gayness. Ultimately "Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualities" ""claims that the so-called conflict between Latino identity and gayness is not the result of traditional values in Latino cultures ( a played out euphemism for retrograde) but an ethnoracial conflict in as much as the status of gayness does not simply regulate sexual but ethnoracial life as well.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	2006
Authors:	Manolo Guzm an
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-97651-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General
LSN:	0-415-97651-0
Barcode:	9780415976510

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