Carlos Ulises Decena
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 99323 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carlos Ulises Decena |
| NOMBRES | Carlos Ulises |
| APELLIDO | Decena |
| FIRMA | DECENA C U |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Violence and the quotidian scenes of becoming a man
This essay turns to quotidian negotiations of homophobia w ithin an immigrant group of self-identified gay and bisexual men to stress how the construction and sustenance of male privilege and of the very contours of the male subject require vigilance and careful policing of all presumably male bodies regardless of their sexual orientations. Based on an analysis of retrospective life history interviews with Dominican gay and bisexual immigrant men…
Circuits of the Sacred
In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology-the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive-as foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo, Havana, and New Jerse…
Kusch en el Trópico
This article stages the imaginary “travel” of the ideas of the Argentine philosopher/anthropologist Rodolfo Kusch (1922–1979) to the Caribbean, in the service of sketching the work of feminist cultural producers in generational knowledge transmission. The first part elaborates a dialogue between Kusch’s concept of “fagocitación” (phagocytosis) with “transculturación” (transculturation), developed by the Cuban Fernando Ortiz (1881–1969). The secon…
Latina/o Sexualities
Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this…
Saberes raros and Postdictatorial Empiricism
A tribute to the pioneering scholar E. Antonio (Tony) Yaguarix De Moya, this essay celebrates De Moya’s contributions to the study of sexuality and marginality in Dominican society by dwelling on key aspects of his scholarly output in this field in combination with the authors’ memories of dialogue and mentorship by the recently departed elder. By highlighting “the anecdotal” as a central dimension to how De Moya sought to mobilize and disrupt th…
Latino Studies en tránsito
Multiplying Archives
In this essay, Decena follows Maja Horn's invitation to move historical and literary analysis of Dominican literature away from the masculine ideation mapped in her pioneering Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). Through an engagement with the operations of silence in the work of Hilma Contreras and of racialized gender identity formation in the novel Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara, Decena consid…
Sending-Country Violence and Receiving-Country Discrimination
The Color of Eros
Book Review| October 01 2013 The Color of Eros The Erotic Life of Racism. Holland, Sharon Patricia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. xii + 168 pp. Carlos Ulises Decena Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 578–580. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2279942 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…
Transnational Hispaniola
In this piece by a collective of scholars, activists, and artists, the authors clarify what they mean by "Transnational Hispaniola" and why they believe this conceptualization of the island complements the work done by social movements combating sexism, racism, and homophobia. They assess the responses to their efforts so far - by people in the Dominican Republic and in the United States - to reflect critically upon the promises and limitations o…
Geopolitical and Cultural Factors Affecting ARV Adherence on the US-Mexico Border
Code-Swishing
This article is based on retrospective life history interviews with Dominican gay and bisexual immigrant men who live or have lived in New York City. It offers an alternative to established and influential interpretations of queer subject constitution that overemphasize abjection while ignoring the polyvalence of identities. Through an engagement with the conditions that make the figure of la loca [the effeminate homosexual] instrumental in the e…
Tacit Subjects
Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena contends that in migrating to Washington Heights, a D…
Gentrification Lite
Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Research Participant Recruitment in Hispanic Communities
Profiles, Compulsory Disclosure and Ethical Sexual Citizenship in the Contemporary USA
Almost thirty years after AIDS was first recognized in the USA, behaviorally bisexual men of color who do not identify as gay are portrayed as deviant but redeemable through the disclosure of their sexual behaviors. The rhetoric of coming out, and the perceptions of internalized homophobia linked to those who do not, are mobilized to produce an ethical sexual citizen, not a gay man. The author analyzes results reported in a Morbidity and Mortalit…
Tacit Subjects
Privileging the disclosure of a homosexual identity, or "coming out," blinds researchers to negotiations of the closet that do not resort to the confession. Drawing from Spanish grammar and from ethnographic research among Dominican immigrant homosexual men living in New York City, this article proposes the concept of tacit subjects to suggest that gay men and those close to them may be complicit in relegating information about a person's sexuali…
Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment by Ana Aparicio
Immigration and HIV/Aids in the New York Metropolitan Area
Los hombres no mandan aquí
Research Article| September 01 2006 “Los hombres no mandan aquí”: NARRATING IMMIGRANT GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES IN NEW YORK Carlos Ulises Decena; Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michele G. Shedlin; Michele G. Shedlin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Angela Martínez Angela Martínez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 35–54…
Putting Transnationalism to Work
Research Article| September 01 2006 Putting Transnationalism to Work: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ALEX RIVERA Carlos Ulises Decena; Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Margaret Gray Margaret Gray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 131–138. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Cita…
A randomized controlled trial to test an HIV-prevention intervention for Latino gay and bisexual men
At the time of this writing, no randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an intervention to reduce unsafe sex among Latino gay and bisexual men (LGBM) had been published. We report the results of an RCT conducted in New York City in which 180 LGBM were assigned either to an intervention developed specifically for this population or to a wait-list control group. The intervention was based on empowerment theory and used factors identified in prior rese…
Infectious Lives
Book Review| October 01 2005 INFECTIOUS LIVES is assistant professor of women's and gender studies and of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean studies at Rutgers University. Carlos Ulises Decena Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 635–637. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-4-635 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
Looking for a tall, dark, macho man … sexual‐role behaviour variations in Latino gay and bisexual men
A community recruited sample of Latino gay and bisexual men in New York were asked to indicate their likelihood of adopting the insertive (activo) or receptive (pasivo) roles in oral and anal sex according to partners' characteristics. The results show that gender stereotypes of masculinity and femininity play an important role in the sexual behaviour of this population. Versatile individuals report higher likelihood of taking a pasivo sexual rol…
Tacit Subjects
Privileging the disclosure of a homosexual identity, or "coming out," blinds researchers to negotiations of the closet that do not resort to the confession. Drawing from Spanish grammar and from ethnographic research among Dominican immigrant homosexual men living in New York City, this article proposes the concept of tacit subjects to suggest that gay men and those close to them may be complicit in relegating information about a person's sexuali…
Transnational Hispaniola
In this piece by a collective of scholars, activists, and artists, the authors clarify what they mean by "Transnational Hispaniola" and why they believe this conceptualization of the island complements the work done by social movements combating sexism, racism, and homophobia. They assess the responses to their efforts so far - by people in the Dominican Republic and in the United States - to reflect critically upon the promises and limitations o…
Code-Swishing
This article is based on retrospective life history interviews with Dominican gay and bisexual immigrant men who live or have lived in New York City. It offers an alternative to established and influential interpretations of queer subject constitution that overemphasize abjection while ignoring the polyvalence of identities. Through an engagement with the conditions that make the figure of la loca [the effeminate homosexual] instrumental in the e…
Los hombres no mandan aquí
Research Article| September 01 2006 “Los hombres no mandan aquí”: NARRATING IMMIGRANT GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES IN NEW YORK Carlos Ulises Decena; Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michele G. Shedlin; Michele G. Shedlin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Angela Martínez Angela Martínez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 35–54…
Looking for a tall, dark, macho man … sexual‐role behaviour variations in Latino gay and bisexual men
A community recruited sample of Latino gay and bisexual men in New York were asked to indicate their likelihood of adopting the insertive (activo) or receptive (pasivo) roles in oral and anal sex according to partners' characteristics. The results show that gender stereotypes of masculinity and femininity play an important role in the sexual behaviour of this population. Versatile individuals report higher likelihood of taking a pasivo sexual rol…
A randomized controlled trial to test an HIV-prevention intervention for Latino gay and bisexual men
At the time of this writing, no randomized controlled trial (RCT) of an intervention to reduce unsafe sex among Latino gay and bisexual men (LGBM) had been published. We report the results of an RCT conducted in New York City in which 180 LGBM were assigned either to an intervention developed specifically for this population or to a wait-list control group. The intervention was based on empowerment theory and used factors identified in prior rese…
Infectious Lives
Book Review| October 01 2005 INFECTIOUS LIVES is assistant professor of women's and gender studies and of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean studies at Rutgers University. Carlos Ulises Decena Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (4): 635–637. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-4-635 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
Immigration and HIV/Aids in the New York Metropolitan Area
Los hombres no mandan aquí
Research Article| September 01 2006 “Los hombres no mandan aquí”: NARRATING IMMIGRANT GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES IN NEW YORK Carlos Ulises Decena; Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michele G. Shedlin; Michele G. Shedlin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Angela Martínez Angela Martínez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 35–54…
Putting Transnationalism to Work
Research Article| September 01 2006 Putting Transnationalism to Work: AN INTERVIEW WITH FILMMAKER ALEX RIVERA Carlos Ulises Decena; Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Margaret Gray Margaret Gray Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 131–138. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-008 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Cita…
Profiles, Compulsory Disclosure and Ethical Sexual Citizenship in the Contemporary USA
Almost thirty years after AIDS was first recognized in the USA, behaviorally bisexual men of color who do not identify as gay are portrayed as deviant but redeemable through the disclosure of their sexual behaviors. The rhetoric of coming out, and the perceptions of internalized homophobia linked to those who do not, are mobilized to produce an ethical sexual citizen, not a gay man. The author analyzes results reported in a Morbidity and Mortalit…
Tacit Subjects
Privileging the disclosure of a homosexual identity, or "coming out," blinds researchers to negotiations of the closet that do not resort to the confession. Drawing from Spanish grammar and from ethnographic research among Dominican immigrant homosexual men living in New York City, this article proposes the concept of tacit subjects to suggest that gay men and those close to them may be complicit in relegating information about a person's sexuali…
Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment by Ana Aparicio
Research Participant Recruitment in Hispanic Communities
Caribbean Pleasure Industry
Tacit Subjects
Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena contends that in migrating to Washington Heights, a D…
Gentrification Lite
Geopolitical and Cultural Factors Affecting ARV Adherence on the US-Mexico Border
Code-Swishing
This article is based on retrospective life history interviews with Dominican gay and bisexual immigrant men who live or have lived in New York City. It offers an alternative to established and influential interpretations of queer subject constitution that overemphasize abjection while ignoring the polyvalence of identities. Through an engagement with the conditions that make the figure of la loca [the effeminate homosexual] instrumental in the e…
Sending-Country Violence and Receiving-Country Discrimination
The Color of Eros
Book Review| October 01 2013 The Color of Eros The Erotic Life of Racism. Holland, Sharon Patricia. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. xii + 168 pp. Carlos Ulises Decena Carlos Ulises Decena Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2013) 19 (4): 578–580. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2279942 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…
Transnational Hispaniola
In this piece by a collective of scholars, activists, and artists, the authors clarify what they mean by "Transnational Hispaniola" and why they believe this conceptualization of the island complements the work done by social movements combating sexism, racism, and homophobia. They assess the responses to their efforts so far - by people in the Dominican Republic and in the United States - to reflect critically upon the promises and limitations o…
Latino Studies en tránsito
Multiplying Archives
In this essay, Decena follows Maja Horn's invitation to move historical and literary analysis of Dominican literature away from the masculine ideation mapped in her pioneering Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). Through an engagement with the operations of silence in the work of Hilma Contreras and of racialized gender identity formation in the novel Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara, Decena consid…
Saberes raros and Postdictatorial Empiricism
A tribute to the pioneering scholar E. Antonio (Tony) Yaguarix De Moya, this essay celebrates De Moya’s contributions to the study of sexuality and marginality in Dominican society by dwelling on key aspects of his scholarly output in this field in combination with the authors’ memories of dialogue and mentorship by the recently departed elder. By highlighting “the anecdotal” as a central dimension to how De Moya sought to mobilize and disrupt th…
Latina/o Sexualities
Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this…
Kusch en el Trópico
This article stages the imaginary “travel” of the ideas of the Argentine philosopher/anthropologist Rodolfo Kusch (1922–1979) to the Caribbean, in the service of sketching the work of feminist cultural producers in generational knowledge transmission. The first part elaborates a dialogue between Kusch’s concept of “fagocitación” (phagocytosis) with “transculturación” (transculturation), developed by the Cuban Fernando Ortiz (1881–1969). The secon…
Violence and the quotidian scenes of becoming a man
This essay turns to quotidian negotiations of homophobia w ithin an immigrant group of self-identified gay and bisexual men to stress how the construction and sustenance of male privilege and of the very contours of the male subject require vigilance and careful policing of all presumably male bodies regardless of their sexual orientations. Based on an analysis of retrospective life history interviews with Dominican gay and bisexual immigrant men…
Circuits of the Sacred
In Circuits of the Sacred Carlos Ulises Decena examines transnational black Latinx Caribbean immigrant queer life and spirit. Decena models what he calls a faggotology-the erotic in the divine as found in the disreputable and the excessive-as foundational to queer black critical and expressive praxis of the future. Drawing on theoretical analysis, memoir, creative writing, and ethnography of Santería/Lucumí in Santo Domingo, Havana, and New Jerse…
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