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A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire / Hiram Pérez.

Title
A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire / Hiram Pérez.
Author
Pérez, Hiram
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2015]

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Description
xi, 179 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
Facuses on three figures with elusive queer histories--the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy--and shows how each has been desired for their heoric masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for U.S. expansion.
Series Statement
Sexual cultures
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books.
  • Sexual cultures.
Subject
  • Gays in popular culture
  • African American gays
  • Minority gays
  • Gay men
  • Gays in popular culture
  • Minority gays
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The queer afterlife of Billy Budd -- Going to meet the man in Abu Ghraib -- The global taste for queer -- You can have my brown body and eat it, too! -- Gay cowboys close to home.
ISBN
  • 9781479818655
  • 1479818658
  • 9781479845866
  • 1479845868
LCCN
  • ^^2015017137
  • 40025331332
OCLC
906658669
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library