Shapeshifters : Black girls and the choreography of citizenship /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2015
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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.