Shapeshifters : Black girls and the choreography of citizenship /

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In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox, Aimee Meredith, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015
Temas:
Detroit > Mich.
African American girls > Michigan > Detroit.
Homeless girls > Michigan > Detroit.
African American homeless persons > Michigan > Detroit.
Filles noires américaines > Michigan > Detroit.
Filles sans-abri > Michigan > Detroit.
Sans-abri noirs américains > Michigan > Detroit.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Society.
African American girls.
African American homeless persons.
Homeless girls.
Junge Frau
Schwarze
Weibliche Obdachlose
Obdachlosenasyl
Soziale Situation
Soziale Probleme
Armut
Rassismus
Gewalt
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Michigan > Detroit.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "We came here to be different" : the Brown family and remapping Detroit
  • Renovations
  • Narratives of protest and play
  • Sex, gender, and scripted bodies
  • The move experiment
  • Epilogue.

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