Kristie Soares is an assistant professor of women and gender studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Dancing in My Parents' Living Room and Other Stories About Joy Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ?Que Pasa U.S.A.? Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz's Azucar and Queer of Color Survival Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull's Miami Coda Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Notes Bibliography Index
"This book is a breath of fresh air. Kristie Soares recuperates joy and its multiple Latinx variants, such as gozando, choteo, and silliness, as radical empowering practices. It is a brilliant challenge to critical approaches that only focus on Latinx negative affect."--Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance