Desbordes
Subtitle: translating racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender identities across the Americas
By: Maria-Amelia Viteri ; foreword by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
Series: Suny series, genders in the Global South
Publisher: Sunny Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781438453354; 9781438453361
Subjects: Gays; Identity; Gay immigrants; Latin Americans; Emigration and immigration; Social aspects
Description: Explores the multiple unfixed meanings that the term “Latino” takes on as this category is reappropriated and translated by LGBT “Latinos” in Washington, DC, San Salvador, and Quito. Using an anthropology-based, interdisciplinary approach, she exposes the creative ways in which migrants--including herself--subvert traditional readings based on country of origin, skin color, language, and immigrant status. A critical look at the multiple ways migrants view what it means to be American, Latino, and/or queer provides fertile ground for theoretical, methodological, and political debates on the importance of a queer transnational and immigration framework when analyzing citizenship and belonging. --From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-154) and index.
Table of contents: title: Translating sexual and racial borders; title: The meanings around "loca": re-visiting language, space and sexuality; title: "Latino and queer" as sites of translation: intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality; title: Inserting the "I" in the fieldwork; title: Conclusions.