Latino homosexualities in the epoch of gayness.
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Title
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Latino homosexualities in the epoch of gayness.
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Identifier
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AAI3127876
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identifier
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3127876
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Creator
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Guzman, Manuel.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Patricia T. Clough
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Date
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2004
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies | American Studies
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Abstract
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Deeply suspicious of the deployment of the metaphor of Blackness in the elaboration of gayness in the United States, this dissertation builds on the argument of Judith Butler that sexing practices are never simply about the alignment of subjects in accordance to positions of sexual difference but also about their simultaneous alignment in accordance to positions of racial distinction.;Through the analysis of detailed in-depth interviews (N = 30), expert discourse on Latino homosexualities, and objects of material culture, Latino Homosexualities in the Epoch of Gayness explores the intersection of homosexuality and Latindad as a matter deeply informed not by the history of sex but by histories of race. This dissertation proposes that the category of gayness is not coterminous with that of homosexuality and is constituted through USAmerican technologies of racial bifurcation that do not characterize the syncretic technologies of race typically found in Latino cultures, which themselves also organize sexual systems in relation to its systems of racial classification. Consequently, the dissertation argues that the ostensible conflict between Latino cultures and homosexual practices is not a conflict over sexual values but a conflict between competing systems of racial formation.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy Restricted.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.