Matt Brim

Poor Queer Studies

Confronting Elitism in the University

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Produktbeschreibung

Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from sites of elite education toward poor and working-class students and locations, showing how the field is driven by those flagship institutions that perpetuate class and race inequity in higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781478006824
• ISBN-10: 147800682X
• Artikelnr.: 57571528

Autorenporträt

Matt Brim is Associate Professor of Queer Studies in the English Department at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York; author of James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination; and coeditor of Imagining Queer Methods.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Queer Dinners  1
1. The College of Staten Island: A Poor Queer Studies Case Study  29
2. "You Can Write Your Way Out of Anywhere": The Upward Mobility Myth of
Rich Queer Studies  64
3. The Queer Career: Vocational Queer Studies  99
4. Poor Queer Studies Mothers  135
5. Counternarratives: A Black Queer Reader  159
Epilogue. Queer Ferrying  194
Notes  203
Bibliography  225
Index  241