There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jose Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture--not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process "disidentification," and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a...
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jose Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial...
The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies.
The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most dire...