Author:
Grappo, Laura, author.
Imprint:2022
Physical Description227 pages ; 23 cm
Note:Introduction. "The browning of America" : conjured bodies and queer racialization --"This could be satanic-related" : fantasies of innocence and criminalization in the case of the San Antonio Four --"A life is worth more than a penis" : Lorena (Gallo) Bobbitt and the domestication of abuse --"A troubled, battered mind" : the queer lives and deaths of Aaron Hernandez, 1989-2017 --"Who's going to tell Sammy Sosa he is Afro-Latino?" : transraciality and panethnic Latinx authenticity -- Conclusion. "Feeling brown" : conjuring Latinidad, here and now.
Note:"The book explores ambiguities in the notion of "Latinidad" as straddling race and ethnicity, arguing that those ambiguities have been exploited to obscure inequalities in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
