Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities

Chicano/Latino culture now represents a significant demographic component of American society. Yet little research exists with reference to the cultural representations by Chicano/Latino authors of homoerotic or same-sex identities. Some research has been done on Latina lesbians, but virtually no bibliography exists with reference to male writers. This collection, which grows out of a research conference held at Arizona State University in November 1997, examines varieties of Chicano/Latino homoerotic identities. It includes essays by a group of scholars who are engaged in defining, the parameters of these identities and who are concerned with how those identities interact with the dominant ones articulated by a hegemonic Anglo society in the U.S. The confluences and the divergences from Anglo homoerotic identities is important in the attempt of chart the particular place Chicanos and Latinos have in American society and the ways in which their identities relate to Latin American identities that for many remain an important source of their subjectivity. Toward this end, studies are included that deal with major sources societies for Chicanos and U.S. Latino, such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.