Latino: October 2007 Archives

Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces
Juana Maria Rodriguez

According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a Latin Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in relation to Latino/a America remains under examined.

Reading and Writing the Ambiente: Queer Sexualities in Latino, Latin American, and Spanish Culture
Editors: Susana Chavez-Silverman & Librada Hernandez

In this dynamic collection of essays, many leading literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic, and U.S. Latino literary and cultural texts. Reading and Writing the Ambiente is consciously ambitious and far-ranging, historically as well as geographically. It includes discussions of texts from as early as the seventeenth century to writings of the late twentieth century.