Oye loca : from the Mariel boatlift to gay Cuban Miami /

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During a few months in 1980, 125,000 Cubans entered the U.S. as part of a massive migration known as the Mariel boatlift. Drawing from first-person stories of Cuban Americans, as well as government documents and cultural texts from both the U.S. and Cuba, the author reveals how a single historical e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peña, Susana, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gay men > Florida > Miami.
Gay men > Cuba.
Cuban Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Immigrants > Florida > Miami.
Gay culture > Florida > Miami.
Homosexuels masculins > Floride > Miami.
Homosexuels masculins > Cuba.
Américains d'origine cubaine > Acculturation.
Culture homosexuelle > Floride > Miami.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Cuban Americans > Cultural assimilation
Gay culture
Gay men
Immigrants
Cuba
Florida > Miami
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From UMAPs to Save Our Children : policing homosexuality in Cuba and Miami before 1980
  • Obvious gays and the state gaze : gay visibility and immigration policy during the Mariel boatlift
  • Cultures of gay visibility and renarrating Mariel
  • Pájaration and transculturation : language and meaning in gay Cuban Miami
  • Narratives of nation and sexual identity : remembering Cuba
  • Families, disclosure, and visibility
  • Locas, papis, and muscle queens : racialized discourses of masculinity and desire
  • ¡Oye loca! : gay Cuba in drag.

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