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Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Julio Cap?Publish date:2017-11-20Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469635200ISBN-10:1469635208UPC:9781469635200Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, United StatesBook Topic:Gay Studies, State & Local, Lesbian StudiesSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC2FQS16JR
Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami's queer past from its 1896 founding through 1940, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own.

Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the forgotten history of "fairyland," a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean--particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti--to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami's old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capo makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469635200ISBN-10:1469635208UPC:9781469635200Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, United StatesBook Topic:Gay Studies, State & Local, Lesbian StudiesSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC2FQS16JR
Julio Capo Jr. is associate professor of history at Florida International University.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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