James Thing: James Thing is graduate student of Sociology at the University of Southern California.
De los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men discusses lower-middle-class and upper-working-class male homosexual behavior and identity in Mexico, as well as strategies used by men who have homosexual experiences or a homosexual identity to navigate their way through varying degrees of social disapproval and to carve out the space necessary to express themselves intimately with other men. The ethnographic research presented by Carrier was collected over a twenty five year period starting in 1969, with a large portion of the research focusing on Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city.
The book is divided into two sections, the first describing male homosexual behavior and identity and the second offering four case studies which help to draw connection between theory and actual lived experience, enabling the reader to more fully integrate and understand the ideas presented in the first section.
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