Constructing, Negotiating, and Performing Identities among Mexican Gay Men in Houston

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dc.contributor.advisorLee, Shayne
dc.contributor.committeeMemberQuiroz, Pamela Anne
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMiller, Audrey K.
dc.creatorPoblano Alvarez, Sandra Elizabeth
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-8050-5038
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-13T14:32:43Z
dc.date.available2020-10-13T14:32:43Z
dc.date.createdAugust 2020
dc.date.issued2020-08
dc.date.submittedAugust 2020
dc.date.updated2020-10-13T14:32:45Z
dc.description.abstractHomosexuality within Mexican culture remains a complicated subject and widespread source of oppression for many Mexican members of LGBTQ communities. More specifically, Mexican men who self-identify as gay often suppress their sexual identities to avoid hurtful confrontations with their family members. Fifteen in-depth interviews with Mexican gay men demonstrate how participants deployed a rich array of cultural resources to construct their ethnic and sexual identities in often hostile social terrains. Combining Ann Swidler’s “cultural toolkit” framework with an intersectionality theoretical approach, this study demonstrated how Mexican gay men had navigated familial pressures, traditional notions of masculinity, and complicated relationships with religious teachings and institutions by utilizing pragmatic cultural tools and adaptive strategies of action to make sense of and affirm what it means to be both Mexican and gay in ways that affirm both identities. The findings offer intriguing insights on how ethnic and sexual minorities actively exploit resources from multiple cultural toolkits toward the task of constructing, negotiating, and performing multiple identities.
dc.description.departmentSociology, Department of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10657/7031
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectsexual identities
dc.subjectMexican
dc.subjectcultural resources
dc.subjectintersectionality
dc.subjectmultiple identities
dc.subjectcultural tool kit
dc.subjectethnic identity, Swidler
dc.titleConstructing, Negotiating, and Performing Identities among Mexican Gay Men in Houston
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentSociology, Department of
thesis.degree.disciplineSociology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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