Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 Contributor(s): Capó, Julio (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469635194 ISBN-13: 9781469635194 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - General - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
Dewey: 305.800 |
LCCN: 2017020580 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.74 lbs) 400 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Lesbian - Sex & Gender - Gay - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Locality - Miami, Florida - Geographic Orientation - Florida - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami's queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the forgotten history of fairyland, a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean--particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti--to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami's old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capo makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness. |
Contributor Bio(s): Capo, Julio: - Julio Capo Jr. is associate professor of history at Florida International University. |