Laura Grappo

Conjured Bodies

Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study argues that powerful authorities and institutions exploit the ambiguity of Latinidad in ways that obscure inequalities in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 227mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9781477325209
• ISBN-10: 1477325204
• Artikelnr.: 62810046

Autorenporträt

Laura Grappo is an assistant professor in the American studies department at Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction. “The browning of America”: Conjured Bodies and Queer
Racialization
* Chapter 1. “This could be Satanic-related”: Fantasies of Innocence
and Criminalization in the Case of the San Antonio Four
* Chapter 2. “A life is worth more than a penis”: Lorena (Gallo)
Bobbitt and the Domestication of Abuse
* Chapter 3. “A troubled, battered mind”: The Queer Lives and Deaths of
Aaron Hernandez, 1989–2017
* Chapter 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