Richard T Rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 761560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard T Rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard T |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRÍGUEZ R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Kiss of Death
Thinking and Teaching with Aurora Guerrero's Mosquita y Mari
Aurora Guerrero is a California-based queer Chicana activist, writer, and filmmaker born in San Francisco's Mission District and currently residing in Southern California. Born to Mexican immigrant parents, she is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of the Arts. Her films include Pura Lengua (2005), Viernes Girl (2005), and Mosquita y Mari (2012). In the ten years since its release, Mosquita y Mari h…
Filmmaking Found Me
Review Article| April 01 2023 “Filmmaking Found Me”: A Conversation with Aurora Guerrero Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez is professor of English and media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (2009) and A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad (2022). Search for other …
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Beyond Boystown: Latinidad on the outskirts of queer Chicago nightlife
What Lies Beneath
Research Article| September 01 2020 What Lies Beneath: The Deep Practice of Historical Thinking Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez University of California, Riverside Richard T. Rodríguez is associate professor of media and cultural studies and English at the University of California, Riverside. The author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (2009), he is at work on two book projects: “Undocumented Desires: Fantasies …
Thinking with Porn Classics
Review Article| June 01 2020 Thinking with Porn Classics Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez is associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. The author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (2009), which won the 2011 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, he is completing two book projects: “Undocumented Desires: Fantasies of …
Undead White
This essay contends that José Esteban Muñoz’s article “Dead White,” published in 1998 in GLQ, holds enduring significance for critically assessing representations of race in queer cinema. Following Muñoz’s lead to focus on the visual currency of the queer Latino body, it illustrates how whiteness is regularly affirmed as common sense in contrast to racial otherness. The essay additionally insists on examining films defying the customary aesthetic…
The Unwatchability of Whiteness: A New Imperative of Representation
X marks the spot
This essay critically assesses the shift from Latina/o to Latinx to articulate new formations of language, history, and cultural politics. Taking cue from Suzanne Oboler's foundational 1995 book Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States, it further asks what's at stake in adopting new labels and discarding those preceding them, particularly for attending to the lives and histories of individua…
The Aesthetics of Politics: Cultural Nationalist Movements and Latina/o Literature
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature provides a thorough yet accessible overview of a literary phenomenon that has been rapidly globalizing over the past two decades. It takes an innovative approach that underscores the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not merely as an ethnic phenomenon in the United States, but more broadly as a crucial element of a trans-American literary imagination. Leading scholars in the fi…
Avowing the Queer Latino American Body
Book Review| June 01 2016 Avowing the Queer Latino American Body The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Ben. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. xi + 279 pp. Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 487–489. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3479378 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supp…
Fantasy
The Architectures of Latino Sexuality
This article examines Latino male homosexual practices emerging in Chicago’s presumably impermeable neighborhoods. Drawing from a range of texts—the sociological studies comprising The Sexual Organization of the City (2004), Achy Obejas’s short story “Above All, a Family Man” (1994), and Tadeo Garcia’s film On the Downlow (2004)—the article illustrates how Latino men negotiate the city’s notoriously rigid geographical boundaries while traversing …
Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature
Book Review| March 01 2014 Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries. By Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole M.. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2011. xviii, 374 pp. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $25.95.Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature. By López, Marissa K.. New Y…
The Sense of Responsibility
Book Review| April 01 2014 The Sense of Responsibility On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility. Martínez, Ernesto J.. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiii + 199 pp. Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (1-2): 201–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2370315 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Queering the Middle
When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the "norm," the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization of the Midwest has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class culture suggests the need …
Being and Belonging: Joey Terrill's Performance of Politics
Since the early 1970s, Los Angeles-based Chicano artist-activist Joey Terrill has been at the forefront of numerous struggles for social justice. This essay examines the performative politics of Terrill's t-shirt art, 'zines, painting, and testimonio , while situating his biography within a community of Latino gay male artists impacted by AIDS
Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature; Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico
Book Review| December 01 2010 Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature; Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 839–841. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Richard T. Rodr…
Live to Tell
Book Review| October 01 2009 LIVE TO TELL Queer Latino “Testimonio,” Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xi + 227 pp. Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2009) 15 (4): 654–656. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-010 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Revi…
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. In Next of Kin, Richard T. Rodríguez explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression created by Chicano men. Drawing on cultural studies and feminist and queer theory, h…
The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Gaytino! (review)
Imagine a Brown Queer: Inscribing Sexuality in Chicano/a-Latino/a Literary and Cultural Studies
Imagine a Brown Queer:Inscribing Sexuality in Chicano/a-Latino/a Literary and Cultural Studies Richard T. Rodríguez (bio) Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity. By Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 176 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians. By Catrióna Rueda Esquibel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. 245 pages. $50…
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. In Next of Kin, Richard T. Rodríguez explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression created by Chicano men. Drawing on cultural studies and feminist and queer theory, h…
Queering the Middle
When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the "norm," the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization of the Midwest has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class culture suggests the need …
X marks the spot
This essay critically assesses the shift from Latina/o to Latinx to articulate new formations of language, history, and cultural politics. Taking cue from Suzanne Oboler's foundational 1995 book Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States, it further asks what's at stake in adopting new labels and discarding those preceding them, particularly for attending to the lives and histories of individua…
Queering the Homeboy Aesthetic
Research Article| October 01 2006 Queering the Homeboy Aesthetic Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez, assistant professor of English and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is author of a book on kinship discourse and Chicana/o cultural politics that is forthcoming from Duke University Press. He can be reached at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site…
Beyond Boystown: Latinidad on the outskirts of queer Chicago nightlife
Undead White
This essay contends that José Esteban Muñoz’s article “Dead White,” published in 1998 in GLQ, holds enduring significance for critically assessing representations of race in queer cinema. Following Muñoz’s lead to focus on the visual currency of the queer Latino body, it illustrates how whiteness is regularly affirmed as common sense in contrast to racial otherness. The essay additionally insists on examining films defying the customary aesthetic…
Being and Belonging: Joey Terrill's Performance of Politics
Since the early 1970s, Los Angeles-based Chicano artist-activist Joey Terrill has been at the forefront of numerous struggles for social justice. This essay examines the performative politics of Terrill's t-shirt art, 'zines, painting, and testimonio , while situating his biography within a community of Latino gay male artists impacted by AIDS
The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Serial Kinship
Research Article| October 01 2002 Serial Kinship:Representing La Familia in Early Chicano Publications Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez, assistant professor of Chicano Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, teaches and writes on media and cultural studies. A co-curator of the exhibition "Gender, Genealogy, and Counter Memory," his essay "On the Subject of Gang Photography" appeared in Aztlán spring 2000…
Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa, Jr. (review)
The illustrious thirty-year career of multimedia artist and activist Harry Gamboa Jr. has largely gone unrecognized by scholars of Chicano/Latino and performance studies, perhaps because of the unavailability of Gamboa's writings. That Gamboa is frequently consigned to the realm of the invisible may be due to the fact that his work has never been compiled in a single volume. With the advent of Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr., …
On the Subject of Gang Photography
This paper examines the figure of the Chicano gangster in "gang photography, " which represents Chicanos affiliated with street gangs in the greater Los Angeles area. Gang photography encompasses documentary photography, self-produced gang photography, as well as police photography. Moving beyond the aesthetic and personal desires by which the practice of photography is typically framed, I insist that we must come to terms with the sociopolitical…
Serial Kinship
Research Article| October 01 2002 Serial Kinship:Representing La Familia in Early Chicano Publications Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez, assistant professor of Chicano Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, teaches and writes on media and cultural studies. A co-curator of the exhibition "Gender, Genealogy, and Counter Memory," his essay "On the Subject of Gang Photography" appeared in Aztlán spring 2000…
The Verse of the Godfather
Family and nationalism are two terms that occupy a fundamental place in debates concerning gender and sexuality. In this essay I will join those debates as I elaborate on how these terms are interrelated and articulated in Chicano rap and hip-hop culture.1 I aim to show how various strands of Chicano rap are rhetorically and ideologically linked to a genealogy of Chicano poetic consciousness stemming from the 1960s and 1970s that advocated cultur…
Queering the Homeboy Aesthetic
Research Article| October 01 2006 Queering the Homeboy Aesthetic Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez, assistant professor of English and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is author of a book on kinship discourse and Chicana/o cultural politics that is forthcoming from Duke University Press. He can be reached at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site…
Gaytino! (review)
Imagine a Brown Queer: Inscribing Sexuality in Chicano/a-Latino/a Literary and Cultural Studies
Imagine a Brown Queer:Inscribing Sexuality in Chicano/a-Latino/a Literary and Cultural Studies Richard T. Rodríguez (bio) Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity. By Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 176 pages. $50.00 (cloth). $19.95 (paper). With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians. By Catrióna Rueda Esquibel. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. 245 pages. $50…
The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Live to Tell
Book Review| October 01 2009 LIVE TO TELL Queer Latino “Testimonio,” Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xi + 227 pp. Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2009) 15 (4): 654–656. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-010 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Revi…
Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
As both an idea and an institution, the family has been at the heart of Chicano/a cultural politics since the Mexican American civil rights movement emerged in the late 1960s. In Next of Kin, Richard T. Rodríguez explores the competing notions of la familia found in movement-inspired literature, film, video, music, painting, and other forms of cultural expression created by Chicano men. Drawing on cultural studies and feminist and queer theory, h…
Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature; Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico
Book Review| December 01 2010 Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature; Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 839–841. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Richard T. Rodr…
Being and Belonging: Joey Terrill's Performance of Politics
Since the early 1970s, Los Angeles-based Chicano artist-activist Joey Terrill has been at the forefront of numerous struggles for social justice. This essay examines the performative politics of Terrill's t-shirt art, 'zines, painting, and testimonio , while situating his biography within a community of Latino gay male artists impacted by AIDS
Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature
Book Review| March 01 2014 Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries. By Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole M.. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2011. xviii, 374 pp. Cloth, $94.95; paper, $25.95.Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature. By López, Marissa K.. New Y…
The Sense of Responsibility
Book Review| April 01 2014 The Sense of Responsibility On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility. Martínez, Ernesto J.. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiii + 199 pp. Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (1-2): 201–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2370315 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Queering the Middle
When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the "norm," the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization of the Midwest has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class culture suggests the need …
Fantasy
The Architectures of Latino Sexuality
This article examines Latino male homosexual practices emerging in Chicago’s presumably impermeable neighborhoods. Drawing from a range of texts—the sociological studies comprising The Sexual Organization of the City (2004), Achy Obejas’s short story “Above All, a Family Man” (1994), and Tadeo Garcia’s film On the Downlow (2004)—the article illustrates how Latino men negotiate the city’s notoriously rigid geographical boundaries while traversing …
The Aesthetics of Politics: Cultural Nationalist Movements and Latina/o Literature
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature provides a thorough yet accessible overview of a literary phenomenon that has been rapidly globalizing over the past two decades. It takes an innovative approach that underscores the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not merely as an ethnic phenomenon in the United States, but more broadly as a crucial element of a trans-American literary imagination. Leading scholars in the fi…
Avowing the Queer Latino American Body
Book Review| June 01 2016 Avowing the Queer Latino American Body The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives. Sifuentes-Jáuregui, Ben. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. xi + 279 pp. Richard T. Rodríguez Richard T. Rodríguez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (3): 487–489. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3479378 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supp…
X marks the spot
This essay critically assesses the shift from Latina/o to Latinx to articulate new formations of language, history, and cultural politics. Taking cue from Suzanne Oboler's foundational 1995 book Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States, it further asks what's at stake in adopting new labels and discarding those preceding them, particularly for attending to the lives and histories of individua…
The Unwatchability of Whiteness: A New Imperative of Representation
Undead White
This essay contends that José Esteban Muñoz’s article “Dead White,” published in 1998 in GLQ, holds enduring significance for critically assessing representations of race in queer cinema. Following Muñoz’s lead to focus on the visual currency of the queer Latino body, it illustrates how whiteness is regularly affirmed as common sense in contrast to racial otherness. The essay additionally insists on examining films defying the customary aesthetic…
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Beyond Boystown: Latinidad on the outskirts of queer Chicago nightlife
Sociology (22 works) · Art (20 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Art history (11 works) · History (11 works) · Queer (11 works) · Citation (10 works)