Desbordes - Translating Racial, Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Identities across the Americas (Hardcover)

Maria-Amelia Viteri explores the multiple unfixed meanings that the term Latino takes on as this category is reappropriated and translated by LGBT Latinos in Washington, DC, San Salvador, and Quito. Using an anthropology-based, interdisciplinary approach, she exposes the creative ways in which migrants including herself subvert traditional readings based on country of origin, skin color, language, and immigrant status. A critical look at the multiple ways migrants view what it means to be American, Latino, and/or queer provides fertile ground for theoretical, methodological, and political debates on the importance of a queer transnational and immigration framework when analyzing citizenship and belonging. "Desbordes" (un/doing, overflowing borders) ethnographically addresses the limits and constraints of current paradigms within which sexuality and gender have been commonly analyzed as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, immigration status, and citizenship. This book uses the concept of queerness as an analytical tool to problematize the notion of a seamless relationship between identity and practice."

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	November 2014
Authors:	Maria Amelia Viteri
Foreword by:	Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-5335-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	1-4384-5335-3
Barcode:	9781438453354

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