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Queer Ricans

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Queer Ricans Book PDF

Author : Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452914282

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Queer Ricans by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Pdf

Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in both Puerto Rico and the United States. Highlighting cultural and political resistance within Puerto Rico’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender subcultures, La Fountain-Stokes pays close attention to differences of gender, historical moment, and generation, arguing that Puerto Rican queer identity changes over time and is experienced in very different ways. He traces an arc from 1960s Puerto Rico and the writings of Luis Rafael Sánchez to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero), Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz María Umpierre and Frances Negrón-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche) and San Francisco (Erika López) in the 1990s, culminating with a discussion of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero’s recent dance-theater work in the Bronx. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, this work reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

Queer Ricans

Lawrence Martin La Fountain-Stokes
Queer Ricans Book PDF

Author : Lawrence Martin La Fountain-Stokes
Publisher : Cultural Studies of the Americas
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0816640912

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Queer Ricans by Lawrence Martin La Fountain-Stokes Pdf

Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in both Puerto Rico and the United States. Highlighting cultural and political resistance within Puerto Rico's gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender subcultures, La Fountain-Stokes pays close attention to differences of gender, historical moment, and generation, arguing that Puerto Rican queer identity changes over time and is experienced in very different ways. He traces an arc from 1960s Puerto Rico and the writings of Luis Rafael Sánchez to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero), Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz María Umpierre and Frances Negrón-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche) and San Francisco (Erika López) in the 1990s, culminating with a discussion of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero's recent dance-theater work in the Bronx. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, this work reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

Performing Queer Latinidad

Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Performing Queer Latinidad Book PDF

Author : Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472051397

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Performing Queer Latinidad by Ramon H. Rivera-Servera Pdf

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature

Benjamin Kahan
The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature Book PDF

Author : Benjamin Kahan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108911337

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The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature by Benjamin Kahan Pdf

Moby-Dick's Ishmael and Queequeg share a bed, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God imagines her tongue in another woman's mouth. And yet for too long there has not been a volume that provides an account of the breadth and depth of queer American literature. This landmark volume provides the first expansive history of this literature from its inception to the present day, offering a narrative of how American literary studies and sexuality studies became deeply entwined and what they can teach each other. It examines how American literature produces and is in turn woven out of sexualities, gender pluralities, trans-ness, erotic subjectivities, and alternative ways of inhabiting bodily morphology. In so doing, the volume aims to do nothing less than revise the ways in which we understand the whole of American literature. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Queer Newark

Whitney Strub
Queer Newark Book PDF

Author : Whitney Strub
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978829237

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Queer Newark by Whitney Strub Pdf

Histories of gay and lesbian urban life typically focus on major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, opportunity-filled destinations for LGBTQ migrants from across the country. Yet there are many other queer communities in economically depressed cities with majority Black and Hispanic populations that receive far less attention. Though just a few miles from New York, Newark is one of these cities, and its queer histories have been neglected—until now. Queer Newark charts a history in which working-class people of color are the central actors and in which violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire. Drawing from rare archives that range from oral histories to vice squad reports, this collection’s authors uncover the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches. Exploring the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, they offer fresh perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, community relations with police, Latinx immigration, and gentrification, while considering how to best tell the rich and complex stories of queer urban life. Queer Newark reveals a new side of New Jersey’s largest city while rewriting the history of LGBTQ life in America.

The Queer Nuyorican

Karen Jaime
The Queer Nuyorican Book PDF

Author : Karen Jaime
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781479808274

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Finalist for The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research. Silver Medal Winner of The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Non-Fiction Book Award, given by the International Latino Book Awards. Honorable Mention for the Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, given by the International Latino Book Awards. A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic One could easily overlook the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a small, unassuming performance venue on New York City’s Lower East Side. Yet the space once hosted the likes of Victor Hernández Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka and is widely credited as the homespace for the emergent nuyorican literary and aesthetic movement of the 1990s. Founded by a group of counterculturalist Puerto Rican immigrants and artists in the 1970s, the space slowly transformed the Puerto Rican ethnic and cultural associations of the epithet “Nuyorican,” as the Cafe developed into a central hub for an artistic movement encompassing queer, trans, and diasporic performance. The Queer Nuyorican is the first queer genealogy and critical study of the historical, political, and cultural conditions under which the term “Nuyorican” shifted from a raced/ethnic identity marker to “nuyorican,” an aesthetic practice. The nuyorican aesthetic recognizes and includes queer poets and performers of color whose writing and performance build upon the politics inherent in the Cafe’s founding. Initially situated within the Cafe’s physical space and countercultural discursive history, the nuyorican aesthetic extends beyond these gendered and ethnic boundaries, broadening the ethnic marker Nuyorican to include queer, trans, and diasporic performance modalities. Hip-hop studies, alongside critical race, queer, literary, and performance theories, are used to document the interventions made by queer and trans artists of color—Miguel Piñero, Regie Cabico, Glam Slam participants, and Ellison Glenn/Black Cracker—whose works demonstrate how the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has operated as a queer space since its founding. In focusing on artists who began their careers as spoken word artists and slam poets at the Cafe, The Queer Nuyorican examines queer modes of circulation that are tethered to the increasing visibility, commodification, and normalization of spoken word, slam poetry, and hip-hop theater in the United States and abroad.

Imagining LatinX Intimacies

Edward A. Chamberlain
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Author : Edward A. Chamberlain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786614339

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Imagining LatinX Intimacies by Edward A. Chamberlain Pdf

Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories. Instead of keeping quiet, queer Latinx artists and writers have spoken up as a way of challenging stereotypes, prejudice, and violence occurring in communities ranging from Puerto Rico to sites within the mainland United States as well as transnational flows of migration. Such migrations are explored in several ways including the movement of queer people from Chile to the United States. To address these matters, artistic thinkers such as Gloria Anzaldúa, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, and Rane Arroyo have challenged such socio-political problems by imagining intimate social and intellectual spaces that resist the status quo like homophobic norms, laws, and policies that hurt families and communities. Building on the intellectual thought of researchers such as Jorge Duany, Adriana de Souza e Silva, and José Esteban Muñoz, this book explains how the imagined spaces of Latinx LGBTQ peoples are blueprints for addressing our tumultuous present and creating a better future.

Puerto Rico

Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
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Author : Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691231273

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Puerto Rico by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo Pdf

"How did Puerto Rico end up in its current situation? A Spanish-speaking territory controlled by the United States and populated by the descendants of conquistadors, enslaved Africans, and indigenous inhabitants, this island (or rather archipelago) has a unique history. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo begins the book with an overview of the pre-Columbian societies and cultures that first inhabited Borikén, the indigenous name of the Puerto Rican archipelago. Though the arrival of the Spanish had a profound impact on Puerto Rico's history, he takes care to tell the story "from the shore" and not "from the boat." The Taínos were not merely passive victims; though they were enslaved and murdered during the Conquest, they also had powerful leaders like Agueybaná II who organized the Americas' first indigenous insurrection against colonial rule in 1511. When the colonial enterprise was consolidated a few decades after the Conquest, Puerto Rico became a military outpost for the Spanish Empire. By the nineteenth century, Puerto Rico was a slave colony, and it was ruled through a combination of reform and authoritarianism. This resulted in the proliferation of unsuccessful slave revolts and, in 1868, an insurrection that declared the Republic of Puerto Rico, which only lasted 48 hours. Puerto Rico's major regime change came in 1898 with the US occupation. Though being controlled by the United States has shaped Puerto Rico's history in innumerable ways, it inadvertently fostered a sense of puertorriqueñidad (Puerto Ricanness) among the Island's inhabitants. US colonization may have involved forced Americanization, but it also provoked a multi-layered resistance to those projects, from passive disobedience to armed insurrections. The creation of the Puerto Rican Commonwealth in 1952 involved using a number of institutions to create the notion of cultural nationalism that was detached from the island's colonial status, included Puerto Ricans in the diaspora and was not contingent on obtaining national sovereignty. The last part of the book focuses on more recent developments from the neoliberal turn in the 1990s to current (and likely future) socio-economic and environmental crises"--

Translocas

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Translocas Book PDF

Author : Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054275

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Translocas by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Pdf

Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora

Becoming Julia de Burgos

Vanessa Perez Rosario
Becoming Julia de Burgos Book PDF

Author : Vanessa Perez Rosario
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252096921

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Becoming Julia de Burgos by Vanessa Perez Rosario Pdf

While it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century. In the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities.

Building Sustainable Worlds

Theresa Delgadillo,Ramon H. Rivera-Servera,Geraldo L. Cadava,Claire F. Fox
Building Sustainable Worlds Book PDF

Author : Theresa Delgadillo,Ramon H. Rivera-Servera,Geraldo L. Cadava,Claire F. Fox
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252053542

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Building Sustainable Worlds by Theresa Delgadillo,Ramon H. Rivera-Servera,Geraldo L. Cadava,Claire F. Fox Pdf

Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x communities cohere through cultural expression. Authors consider how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories and knowledge, inform our imagination and reimagination of our surroundings in acts of placemaking. This placemaking often considers environmental sustainability as it helps to sustain communities in the face of xenophobia and racism through cultural expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements. It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by cultural, political, and institutional leaders, but through mass media and countless human interactions. A rare and crucial perspective on Latina/o/x people in the Midwest, Building Sustainable Worlds reveals how expressive culture contributes to, and sustains, a sense of place in an uncertain era.

Outskirts

D'Lane R. Compton,Amy L. Stone
Outskirts Book PDF

Author : D'Lane R. Compton,Amy L. Stone
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479821501

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Outskirts by D'Lane R. Compton,Amy L. Stone Pdf

"Outskirts is an edited volume from sociology scholars that addresses the complexity of the queer experience in diverse spaces, places, and identities in the United States"--

Queer Sites in Global Contexts

Regner Ramos,Sharif Mowlabocus
Queer Sites in Global Contexts Book PDF

Author : Regner Ramos,Sharif Mowlabocus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000318449

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Queer Sites in Global Contexts by Regner Ramos,Sharif Mowlabocus Pdf

Queer Sites in Global Contexts showcases a variety of cross-cultural perspectives that foreground the physical and online experiences of LGBTQ+ people living in the Caribbean, South and North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. The individual chapters—a collection of research-based texts by scholars around the world—provide twelve compelling case studies: queer sites that include buildings, digital networks, natural landscapes, urban spaces, and non-normative bodies. By prioritizing divergent histories and practices of queer life in geographies that are often othered by dominant queer studies in the West—female sex workers, people of color, indigenous populations, Latinx communities, trans identities, migrants—the book constructs thoroughly situated, nuanced discussions on queerness through a variety of research methods. The book presents tangible examples of empirical research and practice-based work in the fields of queer and gender studies; geography, architectural, and urban theory; and media and digital culture. Responding to the critical absence surrounding experiences of non-White queer folk in Western academia, Queer Sites in Global Contexts acts as a timely resource for scholars, activists, and thinkers interested in queer placemaking practices—both spatial and digital—of diverse cultures.

Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture Book PDF

Author : Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319718095

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Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado Pdf

Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture is a collective reflection on the value of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work for the study of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. The authors deploy Bourdieu’s concepts in the study of Modernismo, avant-garde Mexico, contemporary Puerto Rican literature, Hispanism, Latin American cultural production, and more. Each essay is also a contribution to the study of the politics and economics of culture in Spain and Latin America. The book, as a whole, is in dialogue with recent methodological and theoretical interventions in cultural sociology and Latin American and Iberian studies.

Queer Migration Politics

Karma R. Chavez
Queer Migration Politics Book PDF

Author : Karma R. Chavez
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252095375

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Queer Migration Politics by Karma R. Chavez Pdf

Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of "coalitional moments" in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant rhetoric, imagery, and ideologies that signal a sense of national identity. Karma Chávez analyzes how activists use coalition to articulate the shared concerns of queer politics and migration politics, as both populations seek to imagine their ability to belong in various communities and spaces, their relationships to state and regional politics, and their relationships to other people whose lives might be very different from their own. Advocating a politics of the present and drawing from women of color and queer of color theory, this book contends that coalition enables a vital understanding of how queerness and immigration, citizenship and belonging, and inclusion and exclusion are linked. Queer Migration Politics offers activists, queer scholars, feminists, and immigration scholars productive tools for theorizing political efficacy.