Oye loca : from the Mariel boatlift to gay Cuban Miami

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peña, Susana, 1972- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Cultural assimilation--Miami--Florida.

Gay men.

Gay men--Cuba.

Cuban Americans--Miami--Florida.

Cuban Americans.

Immigrants--Miami--Florida.

Immigrants.

Gay culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Press 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the U.S. as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. Drawing from first-person stories of Cuban Americans as well as government documents and cultural texts from both the U.S. and Cuba, Susana Peña reveals how a historical event shaped the formation of an entire ethnic and sexual landscape.

Contents:

Cover

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 From UMAPs to Save Our Children: Policing Homosexuality in Cuba and Miami before 1980

2 Obvious Gays and the State Gaze: Gay Visibility and Immigration Policy during the Mariel Boatlift

3 Cultures of Gay Visibility and Renarrating Mariel

4 Pájaration and Transculturation: Language and Meaning in Gay Cuban Miami

5 Narratives of Nation and Sexual Identity: Remembering Cuba

6 Families, Disclosure, and Visibility

7 Locas, Papis, and Muscle Queens: Racialized Discourses of Masculinity and Desire

8 ¡Oye Loca! Gay Cuba in Drag

CONCLUSION

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8166-8667-X