Decena Carlos Ulises Decena

Tacit Subjects (eBook, PDF)

Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men

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Produktbeschreibung

Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena contends that in migrating to Washington Heights, a Dominican enclave in New York, these men moved from one site to another within an increasingly transnational Dominican society. Many of them migrated and survived through the resources of their families and broader communities. Explicit acknowledgment or discussion of their homosexuality might rupture these crucial social and familial bonds. Yet some of Decena's informants were sure that their sexuality was tacitly understood by their family members or others close to them. Analyzing their recollections about migration, settlement, masculinity, sex, and return trips to the Dominican Republic, Decena describes how the men at the center of Tacit Subjects contest, reproduce, and reformulate Dominican identity in New York. Their stories reveal how differences in class, race, and education shape their relations with fellow Dominicans. They also offer a view of "e;gay New York"e; that foregrounds the struggles for respect, belonging, and survival within a particular immigrant community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822393900
• Artikelnr.: 54815020

Autorenporträt

Carlos Ulises Decena

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Tacit Subjects 17
Part I. Leaving Living in the Mental Island 39
2. Moving Portraits 41
3. Desencontrando la dominicanidad in New York City 67
Part II. Body Languages 107
4. Eso se nota: Scenes from Queer Childhoods 111
5. Code Swishing 139
Part III. Colonial Zones 173
6. Virando la dominicanidad 177
7. To Be Someone, To Be Somewhere: Erotic Returns and U.S.-Caribbean
Circuits of Desire 205
Epilogue 239
Notes 241
Bibliography 287
Index 303