According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a Latin Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in relation to Latino/a America remains under examined.
Juana Maria Rodriguez attempts to rectify this dearth of scholarship in Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces, by documenting the ways in which identities are transformed by encounters with language, the law, culture, and public policy. She identifies...
According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mains...
Focusing on the figure of the puta-the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine sexual excess-Juana Maria Rodriguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena.
Focusing on the figure of the puta-the whore, that phantasmatic figure of Latinized feminine sexual excess-Juana Maria Rodriguez probes the ways that ...
