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

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 explor...

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