Dos X - Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx Culture

An examination of the interconnectedness of brown-racialized people across multiple identities, told through case studies of television, literature, and writing.

List of contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface: the great bracero
• Introduction: Racial Dysphoria
• 1. Ability as Property: On the Frontier Prosthesis and Colonial Drag
• 2. Filipinx Spanish: Crip Genres of Anti-Assimilation
• 3. Filipino Jose, Not Mexican José: On the Disability Affects of Filipinx Undocumentality and Racial Dysphoria
• 4. Mad Migrant Imaginary: Asian American and Latinx Disability Politics in Translation
• Coda: Basement Archive in the Tropics
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index

About the author

Sony Coráñez Bolton is associate professor of English & Spanish and chair of Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines.

Product details

• Authors: Sony Coranez Bolton, Sony Coráñez Bolton
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2025
• EAN: 9781477331361
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-3136-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Latinx: the Future Is Now
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore