Diversity characterizes the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within
this city of half a million, residents are rising against
traditional barriers of race and class, defining new gender roles,
and expanding access for the disabled. In this rich ethnography of
the city, Michael Higgins and Tanya Coen explore how these
activities fit into the ordinary daily lives of the people of
Oaxaca.
Higgins and Coen focus their attention on groups that are often
marginalized--the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes,
discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and
artists and intellectuals. Blending portraits of and comments by
group members with their own ethnographic observations, the authors
reveal how such issues as racism, sexism, sexuality, spirituality,
and class struggle play out in the people's daily lives and in
grassroots political activism. By doing so, they translate the
abstract concepts of social action and identity formation into the
actual lived experiences of real people.
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