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Streets, bedrooms & patios : the ordinariness of diversity in urban Oaxaca : ethnographic portraits of street kids, urban poor, transvestites, discapacitados, and other popular cultures
- Title
- Streets, bedrooms & patios : the ordinariness of diversity in urban Oaxaca : ethnographic portraits of street kids, urban poor, transvestites, discapacitados, and other popular cultures / Michael James Higgins and Tanya L. Coen ; with the editorial assistance of Marsha Moore-Jazayeri.
- Author
- Higgins, Michael James.
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Coen, Tanya L. (Tanya Leigh)
- Description
- x, 312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Higgins and Coen focus their attention on groups that are often marginalized- the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellectuals. Blending portraits of and comments by group members with their own ethnographic observations, the authors reveal how such issues as racism, sexism, sexuality, spirituality, and class struggle play out in the people's daily lives and in grassroots political activism. By doing so, they translate the abstract concepts of social action and identity formation into the actual lived experiences of real people.
- Alternative Title
- Streets, bedrooms, and patios
- Subject
- Social groups > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez
- Poor > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez
- Gay people > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez
- Poor
- Social groups
- Social conditions
- Armut
- Homosexualität
- Soziale Situation
- Identiteit
- Stadssociologie
- Subcultuur
- Homoseksuelen
- Transseksuelen
- Prostituees
- Gehandicapten
- Gays > Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez
- Pauvres > Mexique > Oaxaca
- Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico) > Social conditions
- Mexico > Oaxaca de Juárez
- Oaxaca de Juárez
- Oaxaca (Mexique) > Conditions sociales
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-305) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca -- Ch. 2. Better to Arrive Than to Be Invited: The Urban Poor of the City of Oaxaca -- Ch. 3. We Are Not Lesbians! Grupo Union: Homosexual Transvestite Prostitutes in Urban Oaxaca -- Ch. 4. Only the Spoon Knows What's at the Bottom of the Pot! Other Groups Transgressing Sexual and Gender Borders in Urban Oaxaca -- Ch. 5. Thanks to God for Giving Me Polio, for I Have Been Able to See the World: Los Discapacitados of the City of Oaxaca -- Ch. 6. A Conclusion of Sorts.
- ISBN
- 0292731337
- 9780292731332
- 0292731345
- 9780292731349
- LCCN
- 99056420
- OCLC
- ocm42736470
- 42736470
- SCSB-8976736
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library