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Author Galarte, Francisco J., author.

Title Brown trans figurations : rethinking race, gender, and sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx studies / Francisco J. Galarte
Edition First edition
Published Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Latinx: the future is now
Contents Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: thinking brown and trans together -- Dolorous proximities of race and transsexuality: reading the Gwen Araujo archive -- Examining transphobic violence and the politics of valuation: the death of Angie Zapata and the incarceration of the hateful other -- Fleshing out the Chicana/x butch and Chicano/x FTM borderlands -- The wound makes the man: trans figuring Chicano masculinities -- Coda: reading with the X -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary "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 transgender politics can be imagined as part of Chicanx and Latinx political movements. 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"-- Provider's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 26, 2021)
Subject Transgender people -- Political activity -- United States
Mexican Americans -- Political activity
Transphobia -- United States
Transgender people -- United States -- Identity
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Sexual minorities -- Political activity -- United States
Sexual minority culture -- United States
Queer theory.
Intersectionality (Sociology)
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies.
Social Science / Gender Studies.
Intersectionality (Sociology)
Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans -- Political activity
Queer theory
Sexual minorities -- Political activity
Sexual minority culture
Transgender people -- Identity
Transphobia
Transgender people
Transphobia
Sexual minorities
Queer theory
LGBTQ+ culture.
LGBTQ+ people
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477322147
1477322140