Latinidad

It has also been described as a circulation of discourses that displace centers of power that tend to essentialize or fetishize latinidad.

In my attempt to better understand Latino masculinities I have developed a framework that combines latinidad and gender.

As the first epigraph to this chapter suggests, Esperanza's response insisted on queer Latina/o ownership of the cultural and political legacy of latinidad and advocated for its central role in figuring queer lives and communities.

Drawing on numerous instances in which distinct genre performances butted against one another, this chapter analyzes how musicians justified these boundaries as necessary for distinguishing between diverse strains of latinidad, but also a trend toward musicians collaborating across genre in an attempt to construct a pan-Latino vision of belonging to the city.