Conjured Bodies : : Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad / / Laura Grappo.

Is Latinidad a racial or an ethnic designation? Both? Neither? The increasing recognition of diversity within Latinx communities and the well-known story of shifting census designations have cast doubt on the idea that Latinidad is a race, akin to white or Black. And the mainstream media constantly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 26 b&w photos, 3 b&w illus., 4 b&w maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. “The browning of America”: Conjured Bodies and Queer Racialization
  • 1. “This could be Satanic-related”: Fantasies of Innocence and Criminalization in the Case of the San Antonio Four
  • 2. “A life is worth more than a penis”: Lorena (Gallo) Bobbitt and the Domestication of Abuse
  • 3. “A troubled, battered mind”: The Queer Lives and Deaths of Aaron Hernandez, 1989–2017
  • 4. “Who’s going to tell Sammy Sosa he is Afro-Latino?”: Transraciality and Panethnic Latinx Authenticity
  • Conclusion. “Feeling brown”: Conjuring Latinidad, Here and Now
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index