The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies.

Acknowledgments  vii Editors' Introduction. The Aesthetic Resonance of Brown / Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o  ix 1. The Browns Commons  1 2. Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs)  8 3. The Onus of Seeing Cuba: Nilo Cruz's Cubanía  24 4. Meandering South: Isaac Julien and The Long Road to Mazatlán  29 5. "Chico, What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem?": The Transmission of Brownness  36 6. The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Sad Beauty of Reparation  47 7. Queer Theater, Queer Theory: Luis Alfaro's Cuerpo Polizado  59 8. Performing the Bestiary: Carmelita Tropicana's With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit?/ Con Que Culo se Sienta la Cucaracha?  78 9. Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt  86 10. Wise Latinas  100 11. Brown Worldings: José Rodríguez-Soltero, Tania Bruguera, and María Irene Fornés  118 12. The Sense of Wildness: The Brown Commons after Paris Burned  128 13. Vitalism's Afterburn: The Sense of Ana Mendieta  141 Notes  151 Bibliography  167 Index  175