Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios : : The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca / / Tanya L. Coen, Michael James Higgins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Higgins, Michael James,; Coen, Tanya L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Union: 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 Sort -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTED READINGS -- INDEX