Brown Trans Figurations

Francisco J. Galarte is an assistant professor of American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is a coeditor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and the author of the essay "Transitions: The Dolorous Return of a Chicana/o Trans-Fronterizo," in Claiming Home, Shaping Community: Testimonios de los valles. His work has also appeared in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and Chicana/Latina Studies.

• Acknowledgments  Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans TogetherChapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo ArchiveChapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful OtherChapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM BorderlandsChapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano MasculinitiesCoda: Reading with the X  NotesReferencesIndex

[Brown Trans Figurations'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. (Publishers Weekly) A needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [Brown Trans Figurations] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Brown Trans Figurations is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina/o/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...Brown Trans Figurations is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina/o studies in profound ways. (Latino Studies) Everyone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. (International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion) Galarte’s capacious project opens new avenues of inquiry that are crucial to our rapidly changing sociopolitical climates. Brown Trans Figurations is a vital contribution to queer of color scholarship...[and] is one of a few texts that consider brownness and transness as singular co/existence. (Chiricú Journal) There is no doubt that it is a seminal text for Chicanx/Latinx, gender, sexuality, queer, and trans studies, and it has applications in fields such as education. But it will also have a lasting and far-reaching impact on anyone interested in these subjects. (Aztlán)