Poor queer studies : confronting elitism in the university /

Poor queer studies : confronting elitism in the university / Matt Brim.

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"POOR QUEER STUDIES contextualizes the material conditions under which Queer Theory is produced in the academy. Locating elite universities as the primary loci of Queer Theory, and as producers of and investors in racialized class stratification, Matt Brim interrogates what role Queer Theory ha...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Brim, Matt (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Gay and lesbian studies > United States.
Elite (Social sciences) > Education > United States.
Queer theory > United States.
Educational equalization > United States.
Educational equalization.
Elite (Social sciences) > Education.
Gay and lesbian studies.
Queer theory.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: queer dinners
  • The College of Staten Island: a poor Queer Studies case study
  • "You can write your way out of anywhere": the upward mobility myth of rich Queer Studies
  • The queer career: vocational Queer Studies
  • Poor Queer Studies mothers
  • Counternarratives: a black queer reader
  • Epilogue: queer ferrying.

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