Re-centering Race and Class in the “Queer Career”

Margot Canaday offers this new book as a kind of continuation of her classic 2009 study on the bureaucratic persecution of gays, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century . Rather than government documents, Queer Career draws on more than 150 oral histories of subjects r...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inModern American History Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 281 - 283
Main Author Mumford, Kevin
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.07.2023
Subjects
Black people
Careers
Employment
Gays & lesbians
LGBTQ studies
Middle class
Race
Racism
Women
Workers
United States > US
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Margot Canaday offers this new book as a kind of continuation of her classic 2009 study on the bureaucratic persecution of gays, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in the Twentieth Century . Rather than government documents, Queer Career draws on more than 150 oral histories of subjects recalling employment memories and complaints, as well as her signature exhaustion of the secondary sources.
ISSN:2515-0456
2397-1851
DOI:10.1017/mah.2023.18