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If we were kin : race, identification, and intimate political appeals /

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"If We Were Kin is about the we of politics-how that we is made, fought over, and remade-and how these struggles lie at the very core of questions about power and political change. While reigning frameworks in the study of politics leave forms of identification sedimented in the background as a...

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Main Author: Beard, Lisa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Political science > United States > Philosophy.
Kinship > Political aspects > United States.
Identity politics > United States.
Race relations > Political aspects.
Sexual minorities > Political aspects > United States.
Political sociology > United States.
Parenté > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Politique identitaire > États-Unis.
Minorités sexuelles > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Sociologie politique > États-Unis.
Relations raciales > Aspect politique.
History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
State.
American Government.
Identity politics
Kinship > Political aspects
Political science > Philosophy
Political sociology
Race relations > Political aspects
United States
LGBTQ+ people
Politics & government.
Politics and Government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • For your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail": Sylvia Rivera's
  • "Flesh of their flesh, bone of their bone": James Baldwin's kinship politics
  • "You have to hear what's being said to you": Hansberry and Horne's interruption
  • Interlude "My friends, these people are our people": Pat Buchanan's nostalgic and demonological appeals
  • "Igniting the kindred": southerners on new ground's family values
  • Conclusion "Remember that feeling because it's the same cage": appeals to boundness.