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Desbordes: Translating Racial, Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Identities across the Americas

Desbordes: Translating Racial, Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Identities across the Americas

Viteri, María-Amelia
Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Genders in the Global South

General Gender StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1438453345
ISBN13: 9781438453347
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2015
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Examines the intersections of Latino, queer, and American, to illustrate how the categories of class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity are directly entangled with issues of citizenship and belonging.

María-Amelia Viteri 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. Desbordes (un/doing, overflowing borders) ethnographically addresses the limits and constraints of current paradigms within which sexuality and gender have been commonly analyzed as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, immigration status, and citizenship. This book uses the concept of queerness as an analytical tool to problematize the notion of a seamless relationship between identity and practice.

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