Preface: Fragment from the Sense of Brown Manuscript

José Esteban Muñoz (1967–2013) was professor and chair of performance studies at New York University. He was the author of the forthcoming The Sense of Brown, as well as Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999), Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009), and coeditor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (1996) and Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America (1997).