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Author Peña, Susana, 1972-

Title Oye loca : from the Mariel boatlift to gay Cuban Miami / Susana Peña
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 224 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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
Summary 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 event shaped the formation of an entire ethnic and sexual landscape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Gay men -- Florida -- Miami
Gay men -- Cuba
Cuban Americans -- Cultural assimilation
Immigrants -- Florida -- Miami
Gay culture -- Florida -- 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
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013014539
ISBN 9781461939634
1461939631
9780816686674
081668667X
9781452946399
1452946396