Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire Among Dominican Immigrant Men
Carlos Ulises Decena
2011, Duke University Press
309 pages
RACE and ethnicity apply an extra level of complexity to gay lives within the Latino community and this book is a challenging analysis of that within the homosexual community of Washington Heights in New York. Carlos Ulises Decena analyses how gay immigrant men of colour negotiate race, sexuality and power in their daily lives. In doing so he identifies a very different community to that of the traditional figures of liberated gay migrants in the cosmopolitan context of New York. There is often a subtle, unspoken familial acknowledgement of their homosexuality that ensures that the bonds of the family are not ruptured by their challenge to Dominican masculine stereotypes. – EC
