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Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics . By Ramón H. Rivera-Servera . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2012. Pp. 272. $75 Hb; $32.50 Pb.
Building upon works by Frances Aparicio, Alicia Arrizón, Jill Dolan, Cherríe Moraga, Jose Muñoz, David Román and Alberto Sandoval Sánchez, Ramón Rivera-Servera probes Latina/o queer performances and social events in US theatres, cultural centres and dance clubs from 1996 to 2011. These sites evoke strategies of expressing, fostering and sustaining queer latinidad, defined as an embodied aesthetic that is both a 'utopian performative' (p. 35) and an active counterpublic. Opening with an account of the 2009 Orgullo en Acción Latina/o LGBTQ Pride Picnic in Chicago, Rivera-Servera addresses what it means to be Latino and queer in public enactments. He powerfully reads performing...