Desbordes : translating racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender identities across the Americas / María-Amelia Viteri ; foreword by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Viteri, María Amelia, author.

Series:

Genders in the global south

SUNY series, Genders in the Global South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--Latin America--Identity.

Gay people.

Gay people--United States--Identity.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Gay immigrants.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

United States.

Gay immigrants--United States.

Latin Americans--United States.

Latin Americans.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Latin America--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Latin America.

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Gay people--Identity.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 164 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Translating sexual and racial borders

The meanings around "loca": re-visiting language, space and sexuality

"Latino and queer" as sites of translation: intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality

Inserting the "I" in the fieldwork

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438453354

1438453353

OCLC:

865574896