NWSA: Race

Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the National Women's Studies Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.

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When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence When Time Warps The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence Megan Burke 2019 Fall
An inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence
What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall
Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
Burgers in Blackface: Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall
A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America Men in Place Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America Miriam J. Abelson 2019 Spring
Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
Histories of the Transgender Child Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall
A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, Editors 2018 Spring
Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall
Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Juárez Girls Rising Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 2017 Spring
Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juárez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence
Downed by Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall
Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism Indifference to Difference On Queer Universalism Madhavi Menon 2015 Fall
A thought-provoking argument for abandoning identity politics
The Queerness of Native American Literature The Queerness of Native American Literature Lisa Tatonetti 2014 Fall
A comprehensive view of Indigenous queer literature since Stonewall
Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low Nobody Is Supposed to Know Black Sexuality on the Down Low C. Riley Snorton 2014 Spring
How the “down low” media phenomenon reinforces troubling representations of black sexuality
Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy Private Lives, Proper Relations Regulating Black Intimacy Candice M. Jenkins 2007 Spring
Respectability, intimacy, and sexuality in African American women’s narratives
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique Aberrations in Black Toward a Queer of Color Critique Roderick A. Ferguson 2003 Fall
A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics Disidentifications Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics José Esteban Muñoz 1999 Spring
An important new perspective on the ways outsiders negotiate mainstream culture.
Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice Fighting Words Black Women and the Search for Justice Patricia Hill Collins 1998 Fall
Explores what African American women and other historically oppressed groups can teach us about social justice.
Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives Dangerous Liaisons Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti and Ella Shohat, Editors 1997 Spring
The first collection to emphasize the complex interaction between gender and postcoloniality.
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness White Women, Race Matters The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg 1993 Fall