Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios : The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca / Michael James Higgins and Tanya L. Coen ; with the editorial assistance of Marsha Moore-Jazayeri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Higgins, Michael James.

Contributor:

Coen, Tanya L. (Tanya Leigh)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--Mexico--Oaxaca de Juárez.

Gay people.

Poor--Mexico--Oaxaca de Juárez.

Poor.

Social groups--Mexico--Oaxaca de Juárez.

Social groups.

Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Diversity characterizes the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within this city of half a million, residents are rising against traditional barriers of race and class, defining new gender roles, and expanding access for the disabled. In this rich ethnography of the city, Michael Higgins and Tanya Coen explore how these activities fit into the ordinary daily lives of the people of Oaxaca. Higgins and Coen focus their attention on groups that are often marginalized—the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellectuals. Blending portraits of and comments by group members with their own ethnographic observations, the authors reveal how such issues as racism, sexism, sexuality, spirituality, and class struggle play out in the people's daily lives and in grassroots political activism. By doing so, they translate the abstract concepts of social action and identity formation into the actual lived experiences of real people.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Better to Arrive Than to Be Invited: The Urban Poor of the City of Oaxaca""; ""CHAPTER THREE: We Are Not Lesbians!: Grupo Unión: Homosexual Transvestite Prostitutes in Urban Oaxaca""; ""CHAPTER FOUR: Only the Spoon Knows What's at the Bottom of the Pot!: Other Groups Transgressing Sexual and Gender Borders in Urban Oaxaca""

""CHAPTER FIVE: Thanks to God for Giving Me Polio, for I Have Been Able to See the World: Los Discapacitados of the City of Oaxaca""""CHAPTER SIX: A Conclusion of Sorts""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography and Suggested Readings""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-305) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-73179-5

OCLC:

967549678