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[email protected] The City University of New York Estados Unidos Book Reviews Centro Journal, vol. XXIV, núm. 2, 2012, pp. 201-227 The City University of New York New York, Estados Unidos Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37730308009 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative CENTRO JOURNAL • VOLUME XXIV • NUMBER I • 2012 Book Reviews • 201 Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora By Lawrence La Fountain-Strokes Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4092-8 272 pages; $22.50 [paper] Reviewer: Enmanuel Martínez, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora represents a major contribution to the study of “Queer Rican culture” (p. xxii). A revision and expansion of La Fountain-Strokes’ Ph.D. dissertation, Queer Ricans explores the “sexile” (“sexual exile”) experience of first-generation queer Puerto Ricans living on the island, as compared to that of second- and third-generation Puerto Rican LGBTQ immigrants residing within the continental United States. Following a “historical (chronological), spatial, and generational model” of analysis (p. xxiv), La Fountain-Strokes begins with an assessment of the culture and politics of “island-born” (p. xxiv) and raised queer Puerto Ricans in the 1960s, continuing with a look at queer cultural production by second-generation Puerto Rican LGBTQ immigrants who escape to the continental U.S.