A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire

by Hiram Pérez

Book Overview

Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary

Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram P rez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer histories--the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy-- P rez unpacks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479845868
• ISBN13: 9781479845866
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"