{"product_id":"queer-in-a-legal-sense-brown-citizenship-and-other-lawful-fictions-9781477333532","title":"Queer in a Legal Sense: Brown Citizenship and Other Lawful Fictions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate the \"lawful fiction\" that denies queer migrants citizenship and community.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Activists for immigrants and queer people under assault by US authorities focus overwhelmingly on protections presumed to be afforded by citizenship through narratives that have rarely had a place for queer immigrants, who have consistently faced special obstacles to legal entry and citizenship that only recently are being applied more widely. \u003ci\u003eQueer in a Legal Sense\u003c\/i\u003e studies literary works by gay Chicanx writers alongside instruments of law, showing through this juxtaposition how racialized queer people have been imagined as nonviable from the standpoint of citizenship. In stories by John Rechy, Arturo Islas, Rigoberto González, Michael Nava, and Jaime Cortez, José de la Garza Valenzuela finds what has gone missing in the migrant movement's pursuit of gendered avenues to civic participation. Further, these works illuminate the production of fictions in canons of law, like those announced by the Florida legislature's \"Purple Pamphlet\" and by the US Supreme Court in \u003ci\u003eBoutilier v. INS\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBowers v. Hardwick\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eQueer in a Legal Sense\u003c\/i\u003e argues that, through selective ommissions and inclusions, legal fictions place queerness outside the boundaries of citizenship and powerfully undermine queer representation in pro-migrant advocacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e José A. de la Garza Valenzuela\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.03w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477333532","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46022475939977,"sku":"9781477333532","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c5edd659-1bda-471e-90e6-ec6da35461b6.jpg?v=1777410038","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/queer-in-a-legal-sense-brown-citizenship-and-other-lawful-fictions-9781477333532","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}