María-Amelia Viteri is Associate Researcher and Professor of Anthropology at FLACSO/Ecuador (Latin American Graduate School of Social Sciences) and Visiting Scholar at the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University. She is the coeditor (with Aaron Tobler) of Shifting Positionalities: The Local and International Geo-Politics of Surveillance and Policing.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Translating Sexual and Racial Borders2. The Meanings around "Loca": Revisiting Language, Space, and Sexuality3. "Latino" and "Queer" as Sites of Translation: Intersections of "Race," Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality4. Inserting the "I" in the Fieldwork5. ConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

"A sophisticated ethnographer and linguistic anthropologist, Viteri provides a rich analysis of heretofore understudied populations. This is a pioneering study." — Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora

María-Amelia Viteri is Associate Researcher and Professor of Anthropology at FLACSO/Ecuador (Latin American Graduate School of Social Sciences) and Visiting Scholar at the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University. She is the coeditor (with Aaron Tobler) of Shifting Positionalities: The Local and International Geo-Politics of Surveillance and Policing.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Translating Sexual and Racial Borders2. The Meanings around "Loca": Revisiting Language, Space, and Sexuality3. "Latino" and "Queer" as Sites of Translation: Intersections of "Race," Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality4. Inserting the "I" in the Fieldwork5. ConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

"A sophisticated ethnographer and linguistic anthropologist, Viteri provides a rich analysis of heretofore understudied populations. This is a pioneering study." — Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora

María-Amelia Viteri is Associate Researcher and Professor of Anthropology at FLACSO/Ecuador (Latin American Graduate School of Social Sciences) and Visiting Scholar at the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University. She is the coeditor (with Aaron Tobler) of Shifting Positionalities: The Local and International Geo-Politics of Surveillance and Policing.

• ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Translating Sexual and Racial Borders2. The Meanings around "Loca": Revisiting Language, Space, and Sexuality3. "Latino" and "Queer" as Sites of Translation: Intersections of "Race," Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality4. Inserting the "I" in the Fieldwork5. ConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

"A sophisticated ethnographer and linguistic anthropologist, Viteri provides a rich analysis of heretofore understudied populations. This is a pioneering study." — Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora