| Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies Contributor(s): Galarte, Francisco J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1477322124 ISBN-13: 9781477322123 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 306.768 |
| LCCN: 2020029777 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.03 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances "brown trans figuration" as a theoretical framework to describe how transness and brownness coexist within the larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences. Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make that repression visible and palpable. Galarte examines the violent deaths of two transgender Latinas and the corresponding narratives that emerged about their lives, analyzes the invisibility of brown transmasculinity in Chicana feminist works, and explores how issues such as immigration rights activism can be imagined as part of an LGBTQ rights-based political platform. This book considers the contexts in which brown trans narratives appear, how they circulate, and how they are reproduced in politics, sexual cultures, and racialized economies. |