Brown trans figurations : rethinking race, gender, and sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx studies / Francisco J. Galarte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galarte, Francisco J., author.

Series:

Latinx (Series)

Latinx : the future is now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Political activity--United States.

Trans people.

Mexican Americans--Political activity.

Mexican Americans.

Transphobia--United States.

Transphobia.

Trans people--United States--Identity.

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Sexual minorities--Political activity--United States.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minority culture--United States.

Sexual minority culture.

Queer theory.

Intersectionality (Sociology).

Transgender political activists.

Latino/a/x transgender people.

Chicano/a/x transgender people.

Queer culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2021]

Summary:

Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoretical framework to describe how transness and brownness coexist within the larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences. Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make that repression visible and palpable. Galarte examines the violent deaths of two transgender Latinas and the corresponding narratives that emerged about their lives, analyzes the invisibility of brown transmasculinity in Chicana feminist works, and explores how issues such as transgender politics can be imagined as part of Chicanx and Latinx political movements. This book considers the contexts in which brown trans narratives appear, how they circulate, and how they are reproduced in politics, sexual cultures, and racialized economies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together

Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive

Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other

Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands

The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities

Coda: Reading with the X

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-170) and index.

American Culture Association: John Leo & Dana Heller Award, 2022.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781477322154

9781477322147

1477322140

OCLC:

1343104061