Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-Lgbt Discrimination Meyer Doug
Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-Lgbt Discrimination Meyer Doug Received a 2016 Stonewall Book Award - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book from…
Specifikacia Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-Lgbt Discrimination Meyer Doug
Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-Lgbt Discrimination Meyer Doug
Received a 2016 Stonewall Book Award - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book from the American Library AssociationSelected as one of "The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About" at the 2016 ALA Annual ConferenceViolence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. In Violence against Queer People, sociologist Doug Meyer offers the first investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses on the role played by race, class, and gender.Drawing on interviews with forty-seven victims of violence, Meyer shows that LGBT people encounter significantly 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 minorities, the poor, and women.