The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in "Everynight Life". The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites ...
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jose Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture -- not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls ...
Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, and Jean-Michel Basquiat: while rarely acknowledged, the Puerto Rican influence on American popular culture has been considerable and varied, an impact resulting from a long history of exchange between the US and its contested island commonwealth. "Boricua Pop" is devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and ...
Manning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Marlon Ross provides an intellectual history of both famous and lesser-known men who have served--controversially--as models and foils for black masculine competence. ...
This special double issue of "Social Text" reassesses the political utility of the term queer. The mainstreaming of gay and lesbian identity - as a mass-mediated consumer lifestyle as well as an embattled legal category - demands a renewal of queer studies that also considers the global crises of the late twentieth century. These crises, which are ...
This special issue of SOCIAL TEXT explores the relations between race and queer sexuality by focusing on the politics of transgression in a transnational world. RACE AND QUEER SEXUALITY confronts the limitations of prior work and provides a starting point for discussion of race, queer sexuality, and the politics of transgression that will be part ...
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