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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-101469635208

ISBN-139781469635200

eBay Product ID (ePID)237801037

Product Key Features

Number of Pages400 Pages

Publication NameWelcome to Fairyland : Queer Miami before 1940

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

SubjectMinority Studies, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Emigration & Immigration, Gender Studies, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorJulio Capó Jr.

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-020580

ReviewsThis engaging and densely researched book stretches the very idea of what queer history can be. . . . A wide-reaching and provocative volume that makes clear how the histories of sexuality and gender are interwoven with and informed by the histories of race, class, and empire."-- Canadian Journal of History, Welcome to Fairyland eschews the earlier scholarly impulse in lesbian and gay studies to produce histories of same-sex desire and community-building without grappling with how gender, race, and class inequities structured differential access to spaces of leisure and transgression where those formations might have emerged.-- Los Angeles Review of Books, "This engaging and densely researched book stretches the very idea of what queer history can be. . . . A wide-reaching and provocative volume that makes clear how the histories of sexuality and gender are interwoven with and informed by the histories of race, class, and empire."-- Canadian Journal of History, For any history buff, Capo's book is truly a gem that sheds a lot of light on an era in [Florida] that gets little notoriety outside of the gay media circuit."-- South Florida Gay News, "Grapples with important questions such as under what historical circumstances norms get shaped, bifurcated, and become hegemonic. Capó Jr.'s work is an extraordinary contribution that offers innovative ways for understanding the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the social, cultural, and urban landscape of Miami."-- Black Perspectives, Grapples with important questions such as under what historical circumstances norms get shaped, bifurcated, and become hegemonic. Capo Jr.'s work is an extraordinary contribution that offers innovative ways for understanding the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the social, cultural, and urban landscape of Miami."-- Black Perspectives, One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history. Capo has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of.-- Gay & Lesbian Review, Grapples with important questions such as under what historical circumstances norms get shaped, bifurcated, and become hegemonic. Capo Jr.'s work is an extraordinary contribution that offers innovative ways for understanding the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the social, cultural, and urban landscape of Miami.-- Black Perspectives, Grapples with important questions such as under what historical circumstances norms get shaped, bifurcated, and become hegemonic. Capó Jr.'s work is an extraordinary contribution that offers innovative ways for understanding the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the social, cultural, and urban landscape of Miami.-- Black Perspectives, One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history. Capo has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of.-- The Gay & Lesbian Review, " Welcome to Fairyland eschews the earlier scholarly impulse in lesbian and gay studies to produce histories of same-sex desire and community-building without grappling with how gender, race, and class inequities structured differential access to spaces of leisure and transgression where those formations might have emerged."-- Los Angeles Review of Books, "For any history buff, Capó's book is truly a gem that sheds a lot of light on an era in [Florida] that gets little notoriety outside of the gay media circuit."-- South Florida Gay News, Demonstrates the centrality of queer and transnational analysis to understanding the 'instant city' of Miami and provides an important model for future scholarship in queer, urban, and southern histories."-- Journal of Southern History, Welcome to Fairyland will take its place as one of the best-known and most valuable studies of queer urban history in the United States.--Marc Stein, San Francisco State University, "Eloquently written, exquisitely analyzed, and impeccably researched, this is one of the best works of scholarship I have read in a long time. Julio Capó Jr. gives voice to whole communities of people whose lived experiences have largely been rendered invisible. The result is a work of national significance." --Melanie Shell-Weiss, Grand Valley State University, One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history. Capó has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of.-- Gay and Lesbian Review, "Demonstrates the centrality of queer and transnational analysis to understanding the 'instant city' of Miami and provides an important model for future scholarship in queer, urban, and southern histories."-- Journal of Southern History, For any history buff, Capó's book is truly a gem that sheds a lot of light on an era in [Florida] that gets little notoriety outside of the gay media circuit.-- South Florida Gay News, One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history. Capo has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of."-- Gay & Lesbian Review, This engaging and densely researched book stretches the very idea of what queer history can be. . . . A wide-reaching and provocative volume that makes clear how the histories of sexuality and gender are interwoven with and informed by the histories of race, class, and empire.-- Canadian Journal of History, For any history buff, Capo's book is truly a gem that sheds a lot of light on an era in [Florida] that gets little notoriety outside of the gay media circuit.-- South Florida Gay News, One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history. Capo has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of."-- Gay and Lesbian Review, Demonstrates the centrality of queer and transnational analysis to understanding the 'instant city' of Miami and provides an important model for future scholarship in queer, urban, and southern histories.-- Journal of Southern History, "One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history. Capó has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of."-- Gay and Lesbian Review, This engaging and densely researched book stretches the very idea of what queer history can be. . . . A wide-reaching and provocative volume that makes clear how the histories of sexuality and gender are interwoven with and informed by the histories of race, class, and empire." -- Canadian Journal of History, Welcome to Fairyland eschews the earlier scholarly impulse in lesbian and gay studies to produce histories of same-sex desire and community-building without grappling with how gender, race, and class inequities structured differential access to spaces of leisure and transgression where those formations might have emerged."-- Los Angeles Review of Books

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.8009759381

SynopsisPoised 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., 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 Capó 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, Capó shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own.Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capó 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, Capó makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness., 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., 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 Capó 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, Capó shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capó 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, Capó makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.

LC Classification NumberHQ76.3.U62M5315 2017