Abstract
This contribution to the special issue on ‘Languages in Contact, Cultures in Conflict: English and Spanish in the USA’ aims to investigate the concept of queer latinidad in Phoenix, Arizona in an attempt to understand how queer Latin@s in Phoenix see themselves in relation to Latino communities, queer communities, and a queer Latino community. While questioning received notions of ‘community,’ we look at how queer latinidad is constructed or rejected by queer Latinas/os in Phoenix at the dawn of the twenty-first century precisely as national attention has been focused on the state of Arizona, and how this negotiation might blur traditional notions of community and question boundaries between communities by highlighting the racial and ethnic diversity of the (presumed Anglo) lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community, as well as the gender and sexual diversities of the (presumed heterosexual) Latino community.
Department
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Publication Date
3-5-2015
Journal Title
Language and Intercultural Communication
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Cashman, Holly R. 2015. Intersecting communities, interwoven identities: questioning boundaries, testing bridges, and forging a queer latinidad in the U.S. Southwest. Language and Intercultural Communication, 15(3): 424-440. [To be republished as a book chapter in the forthcoming volume Spanish in the USA: Linguistic, translational and cultural aspects, edited by Roberto Valdeón, Routledge, 2017]
Comments
This is an Author’s Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Language and Intercultural Communication in 2015, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2015.1015344