When you’re the only Black kid in the honors program or (any
program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of
Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two African
American women on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, it’s not
your gender non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In
those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice
about you. Still, there are other ways of being different--and
feeling different--that can’t be attributed to race, especially
if you’re one of the people whose awareness of the unwritten
rules of what it means to be a boy or a girl (or a man or a woman)
is tempered by the fact that most of those rules don’t feel quite
right. In Gender Studies: True Confessions of an Accidental Outlaw,
Ajuan Mance gives comic treatment to the challenges, complexities,
and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race, gender,
and geekiness. This graphic memoir answers important questions
like: How many preschoolers have to mistake you for your dad before
you actually start to forget your own name; if a Black girl is
awful at double-dutch jump rope is it a reflection on her gender
identity, racial identity, or both; and is viola player a gender or
just a sexual orientation? Ajuan Mance’s comic Gender Confessions
take up each of these questions and more, as it invites to share in
those moments that mark the path of a gender explorer.
General
| Imprint: |
Rosarium Publishing
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2023 |
| Authors: |
Ajuan Mance
|
| Dimensions: |
228 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
64 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-73263-886-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
1-73263-886-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781732638860 |
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