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Manifesto for a Queer South Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Pippa Holloway
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Whereas the past decade of progress for LGBTQ Americans has accompanied a turn away from liberalism and a silencing of radicalism, in that gays who face discrimination are seen as innocent victims while unarmed black men gunned down by police are seen as thugs, and in that queers celebrate judicial acknowledgment of their dignity while food stamps disappear, recipients of public assistance are tested for drugs, one third of young black men have been incarcerated, torture is an instrument of American foreign policy, and the top one percent get wildly richer each year;

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 131 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 182 - 186
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2016

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