About the Series  ix

Preface  xi

Acknowledgments  xxiii

Introduction: Salsa's Lopsided Global Flow  1

1. The Salsa Wars  21

2. Dancing Salsa Wrong  43

3. Un/Sequined Corporealities  66

4. Circulations of Gender and Power  94

5. "Don't Leave Me, Celia!": Salsera Homosociality and Latina Corporealities  124

Conclusion  147

Notes  155

References  165

Index  177

"With her skilled recognition of the meanings and genealogies of dance styles, Cindy García sets the record straight by illuminating the social hierarchies and conflicts emerging in the salsa clubs of Los Angeles. Scholars of salsa dancing who have focused on the Caribbean and New York until now will no longer be able to ignore California and the West Coast."—Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures

"Salsa Crossings is a nuanced ethnography of the embodied pleasures, struggles, and sociopolitical aspirations that Latinos enact in L.A. salsa clubs. Cindy García analyzes the relationships among dancers, club promoters, wallflowers, and socializers as they negotiate the issues of belonging and exclusion that animate latinidad. She brilliantly positions the libidinal economies and stylistic hierarchies of salsa dancing in Los Angeles within the larger political economy of and among Latinos in the United States. This book makes important and illuminating contributions to the fields of dance and Latino studies."—Deborah Paredez, author of Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory

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