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I offer sexual-aesthetic excess as a concept in order to theorize modes of dress and comportment that are often considered 'too much': too ethnic, too sexy, too young, too cheap, too loud. I argue that the sexual-aesthetic excess of chonga bodies complicates dichotomies of 'good' versus 'bad' girls and signifies non-normative politics that trouble the disciplining of behavior and dress for girls of color. This paper examines the meanings associated with the chonga identity and the emergence of visual representations of chongas in order to understand how these bodies produce and reflect discourses about Latina girls' sexuality, ethnicity, and class.

Often described by Latinas/os in South Florida as a low-class, slutty, tough, and crass young woman, the hypervisible figure known as the 'chonga' is practically invisible in feminist scholarship.

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