Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualites

ISBN-13: 9780415976510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 115 str.

Manolo Guzman

Opis

"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.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: The Boys in the Bridge Chapter 2: Queer Theory and Race Chapter 3: Homosexuality in Puerto Rican Society Chapter 4: A Story Told on the West Side of the Birth of a Nation Chapter 5: The Love of Sameness: Queer Love? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Manolo Guzmán is an assistant professor of Sociology at Marymount Manhattan College where he teaches courses on the social organization of sexuality. Prior to life in the academy, he worked as a psychotherapist and advocate for Black and Latino queer youth at the Hetrick-MArtin Institute and the Harvey Milk High School in New York City.