Desbordes

Description:

Explores the multiple unfixed meanings that the term “Latino” takes on as this category is reappropriated and translated by LGBT “Latinos” in Washington, DC, San Salvador, and Quito. Using an anthropology-based, interdisciplinary approach, she exposes the creative ways in which migrants--including herself--subvert traditional readings based on country of origin, skin color, language, and immigrant status. A critical look at the multiple ways migrants view what it means to be American, Latino, and/or queer provides fertile ground for theoretical, methodological, and political debates on the importance of a queer transnational and immigration framework when analyzing citizenship and belonging. --From publisher description.

subjects: Gays,  Identity,  Gay immigrants,  Latin Americans,  Emigration and immigration,  Social aspects,  Gays, identity,  Immigrants, united states,  United states, emigration and immigration,  Latin america, emigration and immigration,  Latin americans, united states

Places: Latin America,  United States