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Queer Ricans : cultures and sexualities in the diaspora / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Martin), 1968-
- Series:
- Cultural studies of the Americas ; 23.
- Cultural studies of the Americas ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minority gay people--United States.
- Minority gay people.
- Puerto Ricans--United States--Social life and customs.
- Puerto Ricans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Cultures and sexualities in the diaspora
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, he reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.
- Contents:
- Introduction: On queer diasporas and Puerto Rican migration histories
- The persecution of difference
- Autobiographical writing and shifting migrant experience
- Women's bodies, lesbian passions
- Visual happenings, queer imaginings
- Nuyorico and the utopias of the everyday.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-6777-2
- OCLC:
- 732606033
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