Gender and Race Research Papers

[pre-print] ["bitch is the new black" illustrates how weblogs help Black women articulate identity and develop social capital] Author Posting. (c) 'Information, Communication & Society', 2010. This is the author's version of the work.... more

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- by André Brock and +2
  Lynette Kvasny
  Kayla Hales
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  Discourse Analysis, Sex and Gender, Digital Humanities, Digital Media

The female terrorist circulates within contemporary Western culture as an object of fascination and heightened concern. Gender and the Political analyses cultural constructions of the female terrorist, arguing that she operates as a limit... more

Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters—their social practices, interests, and anxieties—shaped and defined these... more

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- by Carina Ray
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  African Studies, British History, Maritime History, Race and Racism

While the idea that racism is accompanied by its denial is well established, this paper examines the widespread explicit advocacy of a stance of ‘not racism’. The rejection of racism by proponents of positions that hinder the cause of... more

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- by Kara Viesca
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  Critical Theory, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

This course explores how popular culture generates and articulates our understandings of gender and sexuality and their intersections with race and class. The weekly themes cohere around two correlated topics: 1. “Celebrity” and its... more

The truth, goodness, and beauty sovereignly preserved in the nations are a foretaste of the glory to come when ethnic and cultural diversity will realize the end for which it was created. We will see the redeemed of all nations and their... more

This dissertation analyzes the postfeminist tendencies and biopolitics in contemporary media practices by considering the pop culture exemplar, the Kardashian-Jenner family. This dissertation received First Class Honors from Trinity... more

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- by Vanessa Chen
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  Marketing, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media Sociology

International relations theory has broadened out considerably since the end of the Cold War. Topics and issues once deemed irrelevant to the discipline have been systematically drawn into the debate and great strides have been made in the... more

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- by Alina Sajed and +1
  Randolph B Persaud
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  Gender Studies, International Relations, International Relations Theory, Feminist Theory

With the “controlling images” of the Jezebel, the Mammy, and the Sapphire constantly reiterated in movies, television shows, and popular culture, serving the interests of what bell hooks has identified as white supremacist, capitalist... more

With the “controlling images” of the Jezebel, the Mammy, and the Sapphire constantly reiterated in movies, television shows, and popular culture, serving the interests of what bell hooks has identified as white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy, a consumer has to wonder if there is any way for Black women performers to thrive and empower other Black women while working within these constricting institutions. Although pop culture is the predominant cultural space where these controlling images and stereotypes have been reproduced there are many Black female entertainers who attempt to challenge and undermine such representations.
Scholars such as hooks and Patricia Hill Collins introduce us to the diverse forms of black feminists and black feminism by showing how black women from all walks of life produce and engage black feminist practice. In common cultural discourse, however artists such as Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae, Meshell Ndeogeocello are upheld as leading black feminist entertainers of our contemporary period while artists Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé are denounced as disempowering to black women and merely reproducing dominant racist, sexist, and hetero-normative stereotypes of black women.
Much Black Feminist scholarship has focused on Black women’s resistance to the patriarchal, racist structures that continue to police and attempt to restrain Black women’s bodies and freedom within material social and political realms, but less scholarship focuses on the ways in which Black female entertainers produce Black feminist knowledge and empowerment within the realms of pop culture.
The purpose of this study is not to show how Badu and Monae are the best examples of “true” Black feminism in the entertainment industry and how artists like Minaj and Knowles are tools of white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy. The purpose is to take the expansions of Black feminism that Collins, Davis, hooks, and several other Black feminist intellectuals, have articulated in order to reflect the broad ways in which Black feminism plays out in the popular music industry and to argue against the grain of critiques of popular culture to demonstrate how, despite its limitations, this realm of cultural representation and performance can be emancipatory for black women.

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- by Dr. Brianne A Painia
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  Sociology, Gender Studies, Popular Music, Popular Culture

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- by Glaydson J Silva and +1
  Jair Batista da Silva
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- 49
  Racial and Ethnic Politics, Social Identity, Critical Race Studies, Race and Racism

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- by Peter Borschberg
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  History, Cultural History, Economic History, Cultural Studies

How often do we consider ourselves not in our right minds because of our anger, opt to cool off rather than continue a debate. Anger as emotion is understood and used in ways that weaken arguments. In this essay I will explore how a... more

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- by Jess Zlotnick
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  Cultural Studies, Emotion, Gender Studies, Violence

ABSTRACT The authors present two clusters of entrepreneurship education components. Three social facets, posited to be positively related to entrepreneurship self-efficacy, are expected to increase the likelihood of underrepresented... more

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- by Eric Kinnamon and +2
  Peter Wright
  Frances Fabian
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  Entrepreneurship, Race and Racism, Race and Ethnicity, Gender

Author: Amos Yong Publisher: CBE International Is there a way forward beyond the dominant complementarian discourse at this nexus where a predominantly white North American evangelical Christianity has met racial and ethnic others,... more

This Chapter in a Companion on Contemporary Latin American Film examines relations between television and film in the Brazilian recent diversification of media, and of makers with the inclusion of first generation directors coming from... more

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- by Esther Hamburger
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  Television Studies, Intermediality, Urbanism, Gender and Race

Szene eins: Eine Frau geht auf die Straße. Sie verlässt das Haus. Sie bringt Kinder zur Schule. Sie geht zu ihrem Arbeitsplatz Das ist ihr Alltag. Szene zwei: Eine Frau geht auf die Straße. Es ist Abend. Sie wird belästigt. Sie muss sich... more

Szene eins: Eine Frau geht auf die Straße. Sie verlässt das Haus. Sie bringt Kinder zur Schule. Sie geht zu ihrem Arbeitsplatz Das ist ihr Alltag. Szene zwei: Eine Frau geht auf die Straße. Es ist Abend. Sie wird belästigt. Sie muss sich zur Wehr setzen. Der öffentliche Rat, der ihr unaufgefordert erteilt wird, lautet, sie solle doch die Straßenseite wechseln, wenn sie betrunkene Männer auf sich zukommen sieht. Szene drei: Eine Frau geht auf die Straße. Die Straße ist ihr Arbeitsort. Hier findet sie ihre Kunden. Szene vier: Eine Frau geht auf die Straße. Sie verlässt das Haus. Sie ist auf dem Weg zu einem Protestmarsch. Sie kämpft für die Rechte von Frauen. In jeder dieser vier Szenen erfahren wir, dass eine Frau auf die Straße gegangen ist. In jeder dieser vier Szenen bedeutet dies etwas anderes. Auf die Straße gehen Sich in Bewegung setzen. Das Haus verlassen. Aufbrechen. Weitergehen. Je nachdem, wie ein Text, in dem diese Sätze vorkommen fortgesetzt wird, können diese Sätze höchst Unterschiedliches berichten. Diese Mehrdeutigkeit des Auf-die-Straße-Gehens, dieser enge Zusammenhang zwischen der Dimension des Alltäglichen und der Dimension des Politischen, es könnte ja dieselbe Frau sein, die zur Arbeit geht und die zur Versammlung geht, betrachte ich als Einladung, mehr noch als Aufforderung, die Aufmerksamkeit auf das Wissen und das Gehen zu lenken. Lässt sich von einem Wissen des Gehens sprechen? Wie lässt sich das Wissen des Gehens in Schritte der Forschung übersetzen? Welchen Auftrag für die Forschung erteilt uns der Akt des Auf-die-Straße-Gehens, der die Verhältnisse zwischen dem Alltag und der Politik auf der Ebene der Sprache in ein so enges sprachliches Verhältnis rückt? Wie könnte sich das Gehen mit dem Wissen über die Stadt verbinden? Was würden wir erfahren, was würden wir lernen, was würden wir wissen, wenn wir dem Gehen zuhören könnten, wenn wir die Schritte in Worte verwandeln könnten, um uns in die Geschichte der Körper, die sich in einer Stadt bewegen, die eine Stadt bewegen, hineinzuversetzen? Wenn

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- by Elke Krasny
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  Urbanism, Feminism, Curating, Gender and Race

Resumo: Em 2004, estreava nos cinemas “Mulher-Gato”, adaptação cinematográfica da personagem da DC Comics, notória vilã do universo de Batman. Em meio a críticas negativas de público e profissionais, o filme se destaca por dois... more

Resumo: Em 2004, estreava nos cinemas “Mulher-Gato”, adaptação cinematográfica da personagem da DC Comics, notória vilã do universo de Batman. Em meio a críticas negativas de público e profissionais, o filme se destaca por dois importantes marcos do cinema hollywoodiano, ser um blockbuster protagonizado por uma atriz negra e uma das poucas produções em que uma super-heroína – ou super-vilã –, é a personagem título. Diante disso, este trabalho tem o objetivo de traçar uma leitura reflexiva sobre o filme por meio utilizando como abordagem as contribuições de Michel Foucault para a Análise do Discurso. Adota-se como pressuposto a declaração de Mick LaSalle (2004), crítico de cinema e escritor, que o considerou uma “busca pelo significado do feminismo”. Para tanto, a pesquisa resgata a origem da personagem e o contexto de produção de sua criação e da adaptação para o cinema, de modo a refletir acerca dos discursos que as permeiam. O trabalho se apoia na Crítica Feminista do Cinema e nos preceitos do Feminismo Negro. Como resultados, acredita-se que “Mulher-Gato” realmente apresente questões caras para o feminismo, como a luta pelo empoderamento, independência feminina, equidade de direitos e, principalmente, a visibilidade midiática de mulheres negras. Contudo, estas questões são abordadas sob um viés mercadológico, pautado pelo olhar masculino que objetifica e estereotipa a mulher e se afasta das demandas acerca da representatividade da figura feminina.

Astract: In 2004, debuted in cinemas “Catwoman”, cinematographic adaptation of the character of DC Comics, notorious villain of the Batman universe. Among negative public and professional criticism, the film stands out for two major reasons in Hollywood blockbuster films, a blockbuster starring a black actress and one of the few productions in which a female superhero - or female super-villain - is the main character. Therefore, this work aims to draw a reflexive reading about the film through using as an approach the contributions of Michel Foucault to Discourse Analysis. It is taken for granted the declaration of Mick LaSalle (2004), film critic and writer, who considered it a "search for the meaning of feminism.". Therefore, research rescues the origin of the character and the context of production of its creation and the film adaptation, in order to reflect on the speeches that permeate them. The work is based on the Feminist Critique of Cinema and the precepts of Black Feminism. As a result, it is believed that "Catwoman" really poses important issues for feminism, such as the struggle for empowerment, female independence, fairness of rights, and especially the media visibility of black women. However, these issues are approached under a market bent, guided by the masculine gaze that objectifies and stereotypes the woman and moves away from the demands on the representativeness of the female figure.

#AnneMoody This is an overview of the Anne Moody History Project (AMHP) and its plans to promote and help preserve the legacy of Anne Moody (1940 - 2015). Ms. Moody was a civil rights pioneer and the famous author of Coming of Age in... more

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- by Melody Lehn
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  Rhetoric, Gender and Race, Michelle Obama

Rehana Zaman's Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen (2014) was first exhibited as a multi-screen installation at The Tetley, a contemporary art space housed in the former headquarters of Tetley's Brewery in Leeds, England.... more

Review published in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy of a book exploring the roles of temporality and racialization in the development of femininity, using Simon de Beauvoir and critical phenomenology.

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- by Caleb Ward
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  Philosophy, Women's Studies, Feminist Philosophy, Sexual Violence

Second language learning involves affective factors such as interactions with the dominant linguistic and cultural group, and related problems of self-concept, identity, and self-esteem. Substantial attention has not been paid to these... more

Visibilidad del feminismo afrolatino en la era del tecnofascismo (DESARROLLO) (Explicaré en la charla como afronto estos temas desde mi obra, proyectando ejemplos de mi trabajo, de los cuales adjunto imágenes en este texto. Este texto... more

Visibilidad del feminismo afrolatino en la era del tecnofascismo (DESARROLLO) (Explicaré en la charla como afronto estos temas desde mi obra, proyectando ejemplos de mi trabajo, de los cuales adjunto imágenes en este texto. Este texto habla sobre mis temas de trabajo en especial la visibilidad del feminismo afrolatino en la era del tecnofascismo) "A veces muero…No sirvo para nada; y muero todas las noches para arrancar al día una nube y quedarme con toda la luz; Calla, calla que no soy nada y soy todo para todos. Aquí no soy hija, ni madre ni tía ni abuela, bisabuela o feroz nativa porque lo soy todo allí. Soy mis antepasados. No existo, debo de olvidarlo para poder subsistir. No amo a nadie porque los amo a todos. Y el amor me salva, pero soy sucia porque vengo de esos países. Esos países son mi espalda, que era un mapa abierto lleno de aire, cabía todo porque no tenía nada. Y mi historia me dolió en la nuca entre los brazos de mi tatarabuela esclava; pero los negros son malos porque los otros lo dicen, además vienen ellos de esos países. Mis bisabuelos vinieron de afuera, hablando un español raro, decían: thzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz y los ojos como el azul claro de cualquier tierra. Estoy en el medio de todo y me dan miedo los coches, son de carne y tienen vísceras y los perros muerden. Andando no avanzo y me duelen los ojos, la boca absorbe mis lágrimas, así me baño en el mar. Llevo a cuestas a mis madres. Y yo no estoy en nada, pero esas mujeres no me quieren porque la memoria les falla y a los hombres les fastidia que mi cuerpo sea solo mente. No lo he dado como piensan, aunque hay un hombre al que amo y soy la dueña de mis átomos…Las de antes se ponen celosas, pero yo no soy eso; pero es que vengo de esos países…por si acaso: No la creo. No tengo decencia y no seré la persona que soy porque soy esa gente de esos países…A veces vuelvo de estos países y no se ya ni quién soy, pero soy honesta. Antes me quitaba la vida, pero después la olvidé porque vine y nunca llegué. Nos soy fría y no improviso. No entienden, en esos países la gente también es gente como ellos son la gente para otra gente. Ya no importan mis esfuerzos y virtudes, aquí nunca los tuve, es que vengo de aquellos países y ya nunca más los tendré. Just in case, guardo mi cartera; No la creo…No me importa que mi gesto la destruya: Total, si es que viene de esos países. Y el dolor me dio nauseas, cuando volví a cualquier país, porque nunca fui nada hasta que me acordé de mi historia." Pulsaciones para no morir (fragmento) Gertrudis Rivalta "Ser diferente no significa que seas feo(a)" 1. Me pregunto: ¿Ser diferente con respecto a qué? ¿A quién? ¿A qué grupo? ¿Es un determinado género, clase, raza el auténtico prototipo? ¿El punto de partida? ¿De referencia?... Pues sí. ¿Tenemos oportunidad real de cambiar esa dinámica e igualar? Pues sí.

The connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, however race and sexuality are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways. This illuminating book delves into the interrelation of race and sexuality as... more

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- by Brandon A Robinson and +1
  Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
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  Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, Queer Theory, Race and Racism

Written in 2014, my senior thesis explores permutations in visions of skin and embodiment within works by U.S.-based women of color (Theresa Cha, Toni Morrison, Beyoncé Knowles). Drawing on queer, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory as... more

Resumo: No século XXI, produções literárias africanas têm se configurado comumente como fontes significativas para auxiliar a compreensão de causas e consequências de eventos históricos. Dentre elas, destaca-se o romance Half of a Yellow... more

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- by Edwin Coomasaru
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  European History, European Studies, Gender Studies, British History

This chapter explores the emotional economies of police brutality, particularly the psychological and libidinal mechanisms involved in restoring white male police power that has been threatened.

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- by Paula Ioanide
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  Race and Racism, Race and Ethnicity, Affect/Emotion, Affect Studies

In this essay I examine the racial achievement gap in American education in terms of an impaired psychosocial developmental process. I argue that the well-documented academic underperformance of certain minority groups may stem from the... more

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- by Brian D. Earp
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  Sociology, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Theory

This article examines how the discourse and imagery of West African female dance coalesced with notions of power, desire, disgust, and superiority in Western travel narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The authors of... more

There are long traditions in Western literature that indicate a superiority of reason over emotion. Reason became linked to rational thought and emotions to irrational passions. From Plato and Descartes to Spinoza and Kant, reason was the... more

The primary social condition of mixed-race people was their enslaved status, and the primary carriers of its associated conditions and burdens were women. Within that context they accessed paths to improved conditions including freedom... more

Objective: Accurate assessment of pain is central to diagnosis and treatment in healthcare, especially in pediatrics. However, few studies have examined potential biases in adult observer ratings of children’s pain. Cohen et al. (2014)... more

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- by Brian D. Earp
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  Sociology, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Clinical Psychology

The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and... more

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- by Nina Rapi
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  Aesthetics, Feminist Theory, Collaboration, Gender and Sexuality

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- by Adam Hochman
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  Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, Biological Anthropology

Excellence gaps in education are defined as the differences in rates of advanced accomplishments between various groups, which violate notions of equity. For example, despite having equal talents, only four women have won the Nobel Prize... more

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- by Education Sciences
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  Gender, Gender and Race, Social Class, Inequality

This paper analyzes the role of Black agrarians in resisting systemic racism within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). My central argument is the class-action lawsuit, Pigford et. al., v. Glickman, levied by Black farmers... more

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- by Falquet Jules
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  Race and Racism, French Feminism, Gender and Race, France

This article examines how young African immigrant men in Southern Ontario cope with the dominant racial identity at school in an effort to improve their academic performance and access postsecondary education (PSE). Critical race theory... more

REFERENCE: Tourki, D., E. O. J. Lee, A. Baril, W. Hebert et A. Pullen Sansfaçon (2018). Au-delà des apparences : analyse intersectionnelle de vécus de jeunes trans migrants et racisés au Québec, Revue Jeunes et Société, 3 (1),... more

REFERENCE: Tourki, D., E. O. J. Lee, A. Baril, W. Hebert et A. Pullen Sansfaçon (2018). Au-delà des apparences : analyse intersectionnelle de vécus de jeunes trans migrants et racisés au Québec, Revue
Jeunes et Société, 3 (1), 133-153. http://rjs.inrs.ca/index.php/rjs/issue/132/82
RÉSUMÉ: Depuis quelque temps, on observe une prise de conscience publique concernant les enjeux que vivent les personnes trans migrantes et les jeunes trans, surtout au Québec. Néanmoins, il existe très peu de littérature sur le vécu des jeunes trans migrants et racisés. Notre article vise à pallier cette lacune apparente dans les recherches francophones sur les personnes trans migrantes, en particulier chez les jeunes, en présentant les résultats préliminaires d’un projet de recherche-action participative communautaire visant à mieux comprendre les expériences des jeunes trans âgés de 15 à 25 ans vivant au Québec. Le présent article discute des facteurs d’oppression ainsi que de certains privilèges, de même que de l’influence qu’ils ont sur l’expérience des jeunes trans migrants et racisés lorsqu’ils naviguent les normes de genre préétablies. L’article traite des manières dont des facteurs tels que l’identité de genre, la citoyenneté, la race et l’âge s’entrecroisent et interagissent, et ultimement influencent les transitions médicales, sociales et légales de ces jeunes. De plus, nous discutons des axes de différenciation sociale, ainsi que la manière dont ils façonnent les difficultés qui marquent le parcours de ces jeunes et qui empêchent parfois l’affirmation de leurs multiples identités. Nous reconnaissons également la force et la résilience chez les jeunes trans migrants et racisés ainsi que la manière dont ces jeunes réagissent aux oppressions multiples.
MOTS CLÉS : jeunes trans migrants et racisés, Québec, intersectionnalité, parcours migratoires, études migratoires trans
ABSTRACT: Recently, the public has shown growing awareness of issues affecting trans migrants and youth, especially in Quebec. However, few studies have focused on the experiences of racialized and migrant trans youth. Our article aims to address this apparent gap in the Francophone literature by presenting the preliminary results of a community-based participatory action research project that seeks to better understand the experiences of trans youth in Quebec between the ages 15 to 25. We discuss various forms of oppression faced by these young people, as well as certain privileges, while also addressing the impact of this oppression and these privileges on the experiences of racialized and migrant trans youth who must navigate pre-established gender norms. The article also examines how factors such as gender identity, citizenship, race and age interconnect and interact. Ultimately, these factors shape young people’s medical, social and legal transitions. Furthermore, different axes of social differentiation and the obstacles they create affect the young people’s trajectories and sometimes prevent them from fully expressing their multiple identities. Finally, we highlight the strength and resilience of racialized and migrant trans youth, as well as how they respond to multiple forms of oppression.
KEYWORDS: racialized and migrant trans youth, Quebec, intersectionality, migration trajectory, trans migrant studies

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- by Alexandre Baril and +1
  Edward Ou Jin Lee
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  Social Work, Youth Studies, Transgender Studies, Race and Racism

La letteratura italiana postcoloniale è uno dei fenomeni letterari più rilevanti dal punto di vista storico, incisivo dal punto di vista culturale e rivitalizzante dal punto di vista artistico degli ultimi venticinque anni. Essa ha... more

#AnneMoody This paper presents a timeline of the life history of civil rights pioneer Anne Moody, who wrote the classic, Coming of Age in Mississippi. She was born in 1940 near Centreville, Miss., and she died in 2015 in Gloster, Miss.... more

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the portrayal of the female perspective in a largely male-dominated society of the Old South in Kate Chopin's short stories: "Désirée's Baby" and "The Story of an Hour". The paper relies on... more

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- by Adisa Ahmetspahic
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  Gender and Race, Marriage and Family, Kate Chopin

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