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Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena contends that in migrating to Washington Heights, a Dominican enclave in New York, these men moved from one site to another within an increasingly transnational Dominican society. Many of them migrated and survived through the resources of their families and broader communities. Explicit acknowledgment or discussion of their homosexuality might rupture these crucial social and familial bonds. Yet some of Decena's informants were sure that their sexuality was tacitly understood by their family members or others close to them. Analyzing their recollections about migration, settlement, masculinity, sex, and return trips to the Dominican Republic, Decena describes how the men at the center of Tacit Subjects contest, reproduce, and reformulate Dominican identity in New York. Their stories reveal how differences in class, race, and education shape their relations with fellow Dominicans. They also offer a view of "gay New York" that foregrounds the struggles for respect, belonging, and survival within a particular immigrant community.
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06 avril 2011

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9780822393900

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English

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TACIT SUBJECTS
TACIT SUBJECTS
Belonging and SameSex Desire
among Dominican Immigrant Men
: : :
Carlos Ulises Decena
Duke University Press: : : Durham & London: : :2011
©2011Duke University Press
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Publication Data appear on the last
printed page of this book.
Para Alfredo,
compañero al andar,
por enseñarme que lo
que más importa
es la gente.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1 1. Tacit Subjects 17
PART I.Leaving Living in the Mental Island 39
2. Moving Portraits 41 3.Desencontrando la dominicanidad67in New York City
PART II.107Body Languages
4.Eso se nota111: Scenes from Queer Childhoods 5. Code Swishing 139
PART III.Colonial Zones 173
6.Virando la dominicanidad 177 7. To Be Someone, To Be Somewhere: Erotic Returns and U.S.Caribbean Circuits of Desire 205
Epilogue 239
Notes 241 Bibliography 287 Index 303
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Completing this book would not have been possible without the informants’ willingness to share anecdotes and opinions drawn from their experiences. I am grateful to all the persons who spoke to me as participants, as advi sors at various stages of this process, and as interlocutors and critics. Spe cial thanks to Julio Dicent Taillespierre, Bruno Aponte, Richard Camarena, Jimmy Herrera, Luis NievesRosa, Francisco Lazala, Leonardo Sánchez,E. Antonio de Moya, and Francisco Díaz for their friendship and insights andfor inspiring and challenging me. I am also grateful to Heriberto Sánchez Soto at the HispanicaidsForum, Andrés Duque, and the Latino Commis sion onaidsfor their support. My dissertation committee in the American Studies Program at New York University supported this project from the earliest stages. Phillip Brian Harper and Arlene Dávila set the highest standard with their scholarship and encouraged me by the care, generosity, and critical eye with which they engaged with this project at various stages. I am particularly grateful to my dissertation advisor, George Yúdice, for his incisive readings of this text and for his unwavering support. I feel privileged to have counted on the perceptive feedback of dissertation reader Richard Parker, whose pioneer ing scholarship I admire. I thank Lisa Duggan for her unswerving support of my work, for becoming a reader in my committee on short notice, and for giving me invaluable advice throughout my years atnyu. I thank Alyssa Burke and Madala Hilaire for helping me navigate thenyu bureaucracyand for advocating for me when needed. Patrick McCreery, Kitty Krupat, Lisa Maya Knauer, Sujani Reddy, MarceloMontes Penha, Khary Polk, and Laura Harris were colleagues atnyuwho honored me with their friendship, challenged me with their smarts, and inspired me. I am especially grateful to the members of the Queer Disser tators Group, the single most important group providing me with critical feedback and encouragement throughout the dissertationwriting process:
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