Dos X

Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx Culture

Sony Coráñez Bolton

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English

University of Texas Press
10 June 2025

Social & cultural history; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Gay & Lesbian studies; Ethnic studies; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies

Series: Latinx: the Future Is Now

An examination of the interconnectedness of brown-racialized people across multiple identities, told through case studies of television, literature, and writing.

As a Filipinx immigrant to the United States, Sony CorÁÑez Bolton has frequently been mistaken as Mexican. Dos X theorizes such misrecognition. What does it mean to exist in this liminal state, which CorÁÑez Bolton dubs the “racial uncanny”? What generative possibilities emerge from the presumed interchangeability of Latinx and Filipinx bodies-and from the in-betweenness of brownness as such?

Dos X tracks misrecognition through cultural products like the TV series Undone, Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son, and the nonfiction work of Jose Antonio Vargas. Misrecognition, CorÁÑez Bolton argues, produces moments of uncanniness in which subjects experience dysphoric attachments to identities that aren’t supposed to be theirs. In the context of racial capitalism, racial dysphoria is a disability because it undermines certainty about what one’s body is and therefore what role one is meant to play as a laborer. But racial dysphoria can also be revealing. CorÁÑez Bolton identifies vast potential in this supposed disability, which compels its “sufferers” to confront their shared position within the social, political, and economic organization of capital’s empire, opening new avenues for liberatory solidarity.

By: Sony Coráñez Bolton
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9781477331378
ISBN 10: 1477331379
Series: Latinx: the Future Is Now
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Preface: the great bracero Introduction: Racial Dysphoria 1. Ability as Property: On the Frontier Prosthesis and Colonial Drag 2. Filipinx Spanish: Crip Genres of Anti-Assimilation 3. Filipino Jose, Not Mexican José: On the Disability Affects of Filipinx Undocumentality and Racial Dysphoria 4. Mad Migrant Imaginary: Asian American and Latinx Disability Politics in Translation Coda: Basement Archive in the Tropics Acknowledgments Notes Index

Sony CorÁÑez Bolton is associate professor of English & Spanish and chair of Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines.

Reviews for Dos X: Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx Culture

Dos X boldly maps the epistemic and affective webs that arise from racial dysphoria, questioning the attachments we hold to calcified categories, histories, and practices of recognition. Sony CoraÑez Bolton invites us to engage with gaps, misrecognition, prosthesis, and histories of trauma not only to construct an archive of desire and subjectivity but also as gateways to inhabiting, activating, and ultimately transforming other worlds and ways of knowing. - Allan Punzalan Isaac, Rutgers University, author of Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor