"Conceptualizing Latinx studies within the terms Munoz offers, those of affect, aesthetics, and performance, gives way for more room in which to construct a Latinx studies that seeks to counter anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity, assimilationism, settler nation-state borders and boundaries, language essentialisms, and other settler colonial logics which merely reify the power structures perpetuating global precarity, exploitation, violence, and death." -- Marcos Gonsalez * ASAP/Journal * "In The Sense of Brown, Jose Esteban Munoz maps and grapples with an evolving theory and method of feeling and being in the world that he names brown. In this work, brownness 'is already here, . . . vast, present, and vital.' Munoz gives his theory 'historically specific affective particularity,' rejecting the abjective. Read on their own and in tandem with Munoz's earlier works, these thirteen essays written with care and a sense of urgency outlive his too-soon passing. Lovingly edited, they are a gift." -- Christina Sharpe, author of * In the Wake: On Blackness and Being * "The final work of Jose Esteban Munoz-scholar, mentor, and precious node in an intergenerational and transnational web of intellectual and social relations-will be received with eager enthusiasm and a box of tissues." -- Juana Maria Rodriguez, author of * Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings *
Biografía del autor
Jose Esteban Munoz (1967-2013) was Professor of Performance Studies at New York University and author of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity and Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Joshua Chambers-Letson is Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Tavia Nyong'o is Professor of American Studies, African American Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.