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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reclaiming Identity -- 1. The Epistemic Status of Cultural Identity: On Beloved and the Postcolonial Condition -- 2. Postmodernism, "Realism," and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism -- 3· "Who Are Our Own People?": Challenges for a Theory of Social Identity -- 4. On Representing Others: Intellectuals, Pedagogy, and the Uses of Error -- 5. "It Matters to Get the Facts Straight": Joy Kogawa, Realism, and Objectivity of Values -- 6. Racial Authenticity and White Separatism: The Future of Racial Program Housing on College Campuses -- 7. Who Says Who Says?: The Epistemological Grounds for Agency in Liberatory Political Projects -- 8. Is There Something You Need to Tell Me?: Coming Out and the Ambiguity of Experience -- 9. Reading "Experience": The Debate in Intellectual History among Scott, Toews, and LaCapra -- 10. Who's Afraid of Identity Politics? -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Re-membering Gay Latino Studies -- Queer Theory Revisited -- Comment. It's All in Having a History -- Gay Shame, Latina-and Latino-Style: A Critique of White Queer Performativity -- Comment Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes's "Gay Shame, Latina-and Latino-Style: A Critique of White Queer Performativity" -- The Place of Gay Male Chicano Literature in Queer Chicana/o Cultural Work -- Comment. Our Queer Kin -- Carnal Knowledge: Chicano Gay Men and the Dialectics of Being -- Comment. Entre Machos y Maricones: (Re)Covering Chicano Gay Male (Hi)Stories -- Entre Hombres/Between Men: Latino Masculinities and Homosexualities -- Comment. The Material and Cultural Worlds of Latino Gay Men -- Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: Predicaments of Identity and Visibility in San Francisco in the 1990s -- Comment A Response to "Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship" -- Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs) -- Comment. Never Too Much: Queer Performance between Impossibility and Excess -- Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation: Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form -- Comment. Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil Is Gay -- Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative -- Comment Response to "Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative" -- Dance Liberation -- Comment. Dance with Me -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index