Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader

372 Pages·2011·1.711 MB·English

by  Michael Hames-Garcia (editor), Ernesto Javier Martinez (editor)

Gay Latino Studies

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Gay Latino Studies   A Critical Reader
Edited by Michael Hames- García and Ernesto Javier Martínez
Duke University Press · Durham & London · 2011
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contents
ix Acknowledgments
1 Introduction. Re- membering Gay Latino Studies
Michael Hames- García and Ernesto Javier Martínez
19 Queer Theory Revisited
Michael Hames- García
46 Comment. It’s All in Having a History
María Lugones
55 Gay Shame, Latina- and Latino- Style:
A Critique of White Queer Performativity
Lawrence La Fountain- Stokes
81 Comment
Ramón García
86 The Place of Gay Male Chicano Literature
in Queer Chicana/o Cultural Work
Antonio Viego
105 Comment. Our Queer Kin
Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel
113 Carnal Knowledge: Chicano Gay Men
and the Dialectics of Being
Richard T. Rodríguez
141 Comment. Entre Machos y Maricones:
(Re)Covering Chicano Gay Male (Hi)Stories
Daniel Enrique Pérez
147 Entre Hombres/Between Men:
Latino Masculinities and Homosexualities
Lionel Cantú
168 Comment. The Material and Cultural Worlds
of Latino Gay Men
Tomás Almaguer
175 Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: Predicaments of
Identity and Visibility in San Francisco in the 1990s
Horacio N. Roque Ramírez
198 Comment
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
204 Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo
Bracho’s The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs)
José Esteban Muñoz
220 Comment. Never Too Much: Queer Performance
between Impossibility and Excess
Ricardo L. Ortiz
226 Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation:
Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form
Ernesto Javier Martínez
250 Comment. Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil Is Gay
Paula M. L. Moya
259 Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance
and the Utopian Performative
Ramón H. Rivera- Servera
281 Comment
Daniel Contreras
286 Dance Liberation
David Román
311 Comment. Dance with Me
Frances Negrón- Muntaner
321 Bibliography
349 Contributors
353 Index
acknowledgments
We have many people to thank as this collection goes to press. First, we deeply
appreciate the patience and cooperation of our contributors. We also are grate-
ful to the readers for Duke University Press and to our editor, Reynolds Smith,
for their helpful feedback and support in ushering this project to its conclusion.
Donella-E lizabeth Alston and Monica Guy in the Departments of Ethnic Studies
and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon have also been
invaluable through their administrative acumen and efficiency. Sharon Torian
and Mark Mastromarino and others at Duke University Press contributed their
support and assistance to this manuscript, and we are grateful for their efforts.
We would like to express our special thanks to Paula Moya and María Lu-
gones for their sustained feedback on the manuscript and the project of gay
Latino studies in general. Members of the Joto Caucus of the National Asso-
ciation of Chicana and Chicano Studies provided important emotional, social,
and spiritual support, and this collection would be something entirely differ-
ent without their inspiration. Finally we must thank Eric-C hristopher García,
whose friendship, conversations, and assistance were invaluable in originally
getting this project off the ground.