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Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940


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Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has been a queer borderland for over a century. In chronicling Miami's queer past from its 1896 founding through World War II, Capo shows the multifaceted ways gender and sexual renegades made the city their own. Drawing from a multilingual archive, Capo unearths the forgotten history of ""fairyland,"" a marketing term crafted by boosters that held multiple meanings for different groups of people. In viewing Miami as a contested colonial space, he turns our attention to migrants and immigrants, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean - particularly the Bahamas, Cuba, and Haiti - to expand the geographic and methodological parameters of urban and queer history. Recovering the world of Miami's old saloons, brothels, immigration checkpoints, borders, nightclubs, bars, and cruising sites, Capo makes clear how critical gender and sexual transgression is to understanding the city and the broader region in all its fullness.

About the Author :
Julio Capo Jr is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Review :
"Welcome to Fairyland eschews the earlier scholarly impulse in lesbian and gay studies to produce histories of same-sex desire and community-building without grappling with how gender, race, and class inequities structured differential access to spaces of leisure and transgression where those formations might have emerged."--Los Angeles Review of Books "Welcome to Fairyland will take its place as one of the best-known and most valuable studies of queer urban history in the United States."--Marc Stein, San Francisco State University "Demonstrates the centrality of queer and transnational analysis to understanding the 'instant city' of Miami and provides an important model for future scholarship in queer, urban, and southern histories."--Journal of Southern History "For any history buff, Capó's book is truly a gem that sheds a lot of light on an era in [Florida] that gets little notoriety outside of the gay media circuit."--South Florida Gay News "Grapples with important questions such as under what historical circumstances norms get shaped, bifurcated, and become hegemonic. Capó Jr.'s work is an extraordinary contribution that offers innovative ways for understanding the role of gender and sexuality in shaping the social, cultural, and urban landscape of Miami."--Black Perspectives "One of the most innovative and important recent works in LGBT history. Capó has uncovered astonishing finds that recover the remarkable past of a city that too many people believe has no history to speak of."--Gay and Lesbian Review "This engaging and densely researched book stretches the very idea of what queer history can be. . . . A wide-reaching and provocative volume that makes clear how the histories of sexuality and gender are interwoven with and informed by the histories of race, class, and empire."--Canadian Journal of History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781469635200
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 688 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1469635208
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Queer Miami Before 1940
  • Width: 154 mm


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