Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation

Sheena C. Howard

doi:10.5771/9780739199176

Summary

Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion of identity as socially constructed, yet interconnected and shaped by cultural associations, expanding on the idea that we as individuals live in an identity matrix—our self-concept, experiences, and interpretations originate or are developed from the culture in which we are embedded. The shaping of an individual’s identity, communication, and worldview can be read, shaped, and understood through life, art, popular culture, mass media, and cross-cultural interactions, among other things. The aptness of this work lies in its ability to provide a meaningful and creative space to analyze identity and identity politics, highlighting the complexities of identity formation in the twenty-first century.

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Edition: 1/2014
Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-9916-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-9917-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 277
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
“In Teaching Persona” No access Pages 1 - 2
1. Chapter 1: Coming In/Out of the Closet No access
2. Chapter 2: Divided Loyalties No access
3. Chapter 3: Young Black and Latino Gay Men’s Experiences with Racial Microaggressions No access
4. Chapter 4: Organizing Foreignness No access
“The Origin of Coming Out” No access Pages 85 - 86
1. Chapter 5: Latinas in the United States No access
2. Chapter 6: Me and My Shadow(s) No access
3. Chapter 7: Reliving Oppression No access
4. Chapter 8: Coming Out, Covering, Connecting No access
“What Truth?” No access Pages 157 - 158
1. Chapter 9: Trans*ing Priestly Performances No access
2. Chapter 10: Marking My Black Feminist Heterosexism No access
3. Chapter 11: Heterosexual Masculinity, the Self, and Social Needs No access
4. Chapter 12: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation within the YouTube-based “It Gets Better Project” No access
5. Chapter 13: “Don’t Even Go There!” No access
6. Chapter 14: Friends of Batman (And Dorothy) No access
Index No access Pages 269 - 272
About the Contributors No access Pages 273 - 276
About the Editor No access Pages 277 - 277