Latinxxx Pornography

In this keyword chapter, I offer a brief and partial genealogy of what has been written thus far about the genre of Latinx porn. First, I survey the emerging literature on race and pornography; then I move to the literature on sex work; and I end with the politics of representation that Latinx pornography has already created in the literature. Throughout the chapter, I argue that Latinx pornography pushes us to reckon with the understanding that race is a relational process—that Latinidad is not just another descriptor of whiteness but, instead, complicates the white and black binary that still dominates much of the scholarly literature on pornography. As a keyword, Latinx pornography allows us to understand how the racial scripts of other racialized groups affect the labor conditions, experience, and representation of Latinx bodies on screen, in art, and in literature. Latinx pornography brings a critical perspective to the literature of race and porn by raising questions about citizenship, borders, language, mestizaje, colonialism, racial hierarchies, and white supremacy.