Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

Carlos Ulises Decena

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Book cover for Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean
Book cover for Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean

Carlos Ulises Decena

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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 Jersey, Decena moves between languages, locations, pronouns, and genres to map the itineraries of blackness as a "circuit," a multipronged and multisensorial field. A feminist pilgrimage and extended conversation with the dead, Decena's study is a provocative work that transforms the academic monograph into a gathering of stories, theoretical innovation, and expressive praxis to channel voices, ancestors, deities, theorists, artists, and spirits from the vantage point of radical feminism and queer-of-color thinking.

About the Author

Carlos Ulises Decena is Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and author of Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men, also published by Duke University Press.

Critical Reviews

"Beyond the provocation of the book's title and theoretical framework lies, in moments, a charming memoir chronicling Decena's auto-ethnographic experience of growing up in a Black Dominican migrant family. . . . Decena's generational musings on queer life will be of particular interest to readers who value sex-positive ethics regarding HIV awareness and prevention."--James Padilioni "American Religion" (5/16/2024 12:00:00 AM)

"More than memoir, more than monograph, Carlos Ulises Decena's Circuits of the Sacred boldly undresses dominant preconceptions surrounding queer spiritual and sexual identity. . . . Decena's unapologetic command of space and attention makes this book a valuable contribution to queer scholarship. The text's emotional complexity constructs kinetic reckoning and revolution, calling us to (re)shape livable futures."--Marion Eames White "Reading Religion" (5/5/2024 12:00:00 AM)

Publishing Information

Publisher: Duke University Press
Pub date: 2023-02-03
Length: 208 pages

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