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Violence against queer people : race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination /

Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community - white, middle class men - and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence: racial m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer, Doug, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : social inequality and violence against LGBT people
  • More than homophobia : the race, class, and gender dynamics of anti-LGBT violence
  • "I'm making Black people look bad" : the racial implications of anti-queer violence
  • Gendered views of sexual assault, physical violence, and verbal abuse
  • Race, gender, and perceptions of violence as homophobic
  • "Not that big of a deal" : social class differences in viewing violence as severe
  • The home and the street : violence from strangers and family members
  • Conclusion : anti-queer violence and multiple systems of oppression.