In their introduction, Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o write about the complicated task of editing and providing an opening for the posthumous publication of José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown. While dwelling on the book's incompleteness yet its long time coming, Chambers-Letson and Nyong'o provide a beautiful genealogy of Muñoz's scholarship in queer studies, Latinx studies, and performance studies. They characterize The Sense of Brown as Muñoz's “most direct address to the field of Latino/a studies and the queer intellectual formation that would come to be known, in the years since his death, as Latinx studies” (x). The Sense of Brown is Muñoz's attempt at theorizing a brown commons that is “an example of collectivity with and through the incommensurable” (2). Thinking through collectivity in this way, The Sense of Brown follows Muñoz's previous works in queer of color critique by deploying difference as an analytic to facilitate...
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