Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style

by Joshua Javier Guzmán

How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style

In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzm n explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of Ronald Reagan to the height of the AIDS epidemic. He demonstrates how style-as a cultural form and sensibility-becomes essential to Latino politics at the moment the utopian impulses of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479812838
• ISBN13: 9781479812837
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"