Lázaro Lima is Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory and the coeditor, with Felice Picano, of Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing.

• OverviewIntroduction. On Being Brownin the Democratic CommonsPart I. A latina for the nation1. Sonia Sotomayor and “the Latino Question”2. Sonia Sotomayor’s Elusive EmbracePart II. Losing Sonia Sotomayor3. Sonia Sotomayor, the Mediapheme4. Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of DebtCoda. Thinking Otherwise: Sonia Sotomayor andthe Emergence of Latino Legal ThoughtAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected Bibliography

"Being Brown reads, and feels, like the right book at the right time. The dream of the ‘Brown Democratic Commons’ that drives so much of Lázaro Lima’s thought, and his hope, in this transformative study has never felt so possible, and so impossible, at the same time."

Lázaro Lima is Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory and the coeditor, with Felice Picano, of Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing.

• OverviewIntroduction. On Being Brownin the Democratic CommonsPart I. A latina for the nation1. Sonia Sotomayor and “the Latino Question”2. Sonia Sotomayor’s Elusive EmbracePart II. Losing Sonia Sotomayor3. Sonia Sotomayor, the Mediapheme4. Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of DebtCoda. Thinking Otherwise: Sonia Sotomayor andthe Emergence of Latino Legal ThoughtAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected Bibliography

"Being Brown reads, and feels, like the right book at the right time. The dream of the ‘Brown Democratic Commons’ that drives so much of Lázaro Lima’s thought, and his hope, in this transformative study has never felt so possible, and so impossible, at the same time."

Lázaro Lima is Professor of Latino Studies in the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory and the coeditor, with Felice Picano, of Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing.

• OverviewIntroduction. On Being Brownin the Democratic CommonsPart I. A latina for the nation1. Sonia Sotomayor and “the Latino Question”2. Sonia Sotomayor’s Elusive EmbracePart II. Losing Sonia Sotomayor3. Sonia Sotomayor, the Mediapheme4. Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of DebtCoda. Thinking Otherwise: Sonia Sotomayor andthe Emergence of Latino Legal ThoughtAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected Bibliography

"Being Brown reads, and feels, like the right book at the right time. The dream of the ‘Brown Democratic Commons’ that drives so much of Lázaro Lima’s thought, and his hope, in this transformative study has never felt so possible, and so impossible, at the same time."