Disidentifications : Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics

Preface Jack's Plunger ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction Performing Disidentifications 1(36) Part I The Melancholia of Race Famous and Dandy like B. 'n' Andy Race, Pop, and Basquiat 37(20) Photographies of Mourning Melancholia and Ambivalence in Van DerZee, Mapplethorpe, and Looking for Langston 57(20) Part II Remaking Genres: Porn, Punk, and Ethnography The Auteothnographic Performance Reading Richard Fung's Queer Hybridity 77(16) ``The White to Be Angry'' Vaginal Creme Davis's Terrorist Drag 93(26) Part III Critical Cubania Sister Acts Ela Troyano and Carmelita Tropicana 119(24) Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity Performing an Ethics of the Self 143(18) Performing Disidentity Disidentification as a Practice of Freedom 161(20) Latina Performance and Queer Worldmaking; or, Chusmeria at the End of the Twentieth Century 181(20) Notes 201(18) Index 219