Beschreibung:
Based on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Tacit Subjects 17Part I. Leaving Living in the Mental Island 392. Moving Portraits 413. Desencontrando la dominicanidad in New York City 67Part II. Body Languages 1074. Eso se nota: Scenes from Queer Childhoods 1115. Code Swishing 139Part III. Colonial Zones 1736. Virando la dominicanidad 1777. To Be Someone, To Be Somewhere: Erotic Returns and U.S.-Caribbean Circuits of Desire 205Epilogue 239Notes 241Bibliography 287Index 303