Salsa Crossings Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles

Name: Salsa Crossings Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles
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ISBN: 9780822354970

ISBN-10: 0822354977

ISBN-13: 9780822354970

Edition: 2014

Authors: Cindy Garcï¿½a, Cindy Garcï¿½a

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In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging, are enacted on and off the dance floor. In an ethnography filled with dramatic narratives, Cindy García describes how local salseras/os gain social status by performing an exoticized L.A.-style salsa that distances them from club practices associated with Mexicanness. Many Latinos in Los Angeles try to avoid "dancing like a Mexican," attempting to rid their dancing of techniques that might suggest that they are migrants, poor, working-class, Mexican, or undocumented. In L.A. salsa clubs, social belonging and mobility…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/18/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



About the Series


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Salsas Lopsided Global Flow



The Salsa Wars



Dancing Salsa Wrong



Un/Sequined Corporealities



Circulations of Gender and Power



"Don't Leave Me, Celiaï¿½: Salsera Homosociality and Latina Corporealities


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index