" A new vocabulary for African American Studies As the longest-standing interdisciplinary field, African American Studies has laid the foundation for critically analyzing issues of race, ethnicity, and culture within the academy and beyond. This volume assembles the keywords of this field for the first time, exploring not only the history of those categories but their continued relevance in the contemporary moment. Taking up a vast arr ..."
"The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politic ..."
"Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the “strange affinities,” afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations. The nationalist and identity-based concepts of race underlying the mid-twentieth-century movements for decolonization and ..."
"Original poetry, fiction, and cultural criticism explore issues of trust, bridge-building, difference, and betrayal, both political and private.How do we know who is on our side? Is it possible for someone who is not like us to share our hopes? Can links forged by empathy or mutual interest match those created by shared experience? What can we gain from alliances that we cannot achieve on our own?These are difficult question to answer e ..."
"Editors-in-Chief Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen Executive Editor Chloe Fox
Managing Editor and Arts Editor Adam ... Rosie Gillies Contributing Editors Junot
Díaz, Adom Getachew, Walter Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, Lenore Palladino ..."
America's Experts(1st Edition) Race and the Fictions of Sociology von Cynthia H. Tolentino, Roderick A. Ferguson Paperback, 154 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von University Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-5111-5, ISBN: 0-8166-5111-6
"During World War II, the rising visibility of anticolonial and antiracist movements exposed contradictions between the U.S. democratic mission in Europe and racist practices against people of color at home. Yet the professional success stories of people of color gave ideological support to the notion that liberal antiracism was spreading within the United States.Challenging conventional accounts of U.S. ethnic literature rooted in 1960s ..."
"Why does society have difficulty discussing sexualities? Where does fear of Black sexualities emerge and how is it manifested? How can varied experiences of Black females and males who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), or straight help inform dialogue and academic inquiry?From questioning forces that have constrained sexual choices to examining how Blacks have forged healthy sexual identities in an oppressive environment, ..."
"Why does society have difficulty discussing sexualities? Where does fear of Black sexualities emerge and how is it manifested? How can varied experiences of Black females and males who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), or straight help inform dialogue and academic inquiry? From questioning forces that have constrained sexual choices to examining how Blacks have forged healthy sexual identities in an oppressive environment, ..."
We Demand(1st Edition) The University and Student Protests (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) von Roderick A. Ferguson Paperback, 136 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29300-7, ISBN: 0-520-29300-2
The Reorder of Things(1st Edition) The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (Difference Incorporated) von Roderick A. Ferguson Paperback, 280 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2012 von Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-7279-0, ISBN: 0-8166-7279-2
"Kennedy, “Trusting the Process”; Thomas Bryant and Thomas Kilger, Interview Reports, March 11, 2019; Laura Shanley, Unassisted Childbirth, 3rd ed. (Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, n.d.), and see “Orgasmic Childbirth,” accessed November ..."
Difference Incorporated Ser. The Reorder of Things : The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference von Roderick A. Ferguson Hardcover, 286 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2012 von Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-7278-3, ISBN: 0-8166-7278-4
"In The Reorder of Things, however, Roderick A. Ferguson traces and assesses the ways in which the rise of interdisciplines--departments of race, gender, and ethnicity; fields such as queer studies--were not simply a challenge to ..."
Aberrations In Black(1st Edition) Toward A Queer Of Color Critique (Critical American Studies) von Roderick A. Ferguson Hardcover, 192 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2003 von Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4128-4, ISBN: 0-8166-4128-5
We Demand The University and Student Protests (Volume 1) (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) von Roderick A. Ferguson Hardcover, 152 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-29299-4, ISBN: 0-520-29299-5
"for an immediate occupation of Weinstein Hall and requested support from the
local Gay Liberation Front. The response was almost immediate, with Weinstein
Hall being occupied by dozens of activists, among them Sylvia Rivera and
Marsha P. Johnson. ... While the protest at Weinstein Hall was specifically about
the presence of queer and trans folks within the university, it is important to note
that the ..."