Violence against Queer People : : Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination / / Doug Meyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Meyer, Doug,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 1 table

Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community-white, middle class men-and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence-racial minori...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• 1. Introduction: Social Inequality and Violence against LGBT People
• 2. More than Homophobia: The Race, Class, and Gender Dynamics of Anti-LGBT Violence
• 3. "I'm Making Black People Look Bad": The Racial Implications of Anti-Queer Violence
• 4. Gendered Views of Sexual Assault, Physical Violence, and Verbal Abuse
• 5. Race, Gender, and Perceptions of Violence as Homophobic
• 6. "Not That Big of a Deal": Social Class Differences in Viewing Violence as Severe
• 7. The Home and the Street: Violence from Strangers and Family Members
• 8. Conclusion: Anti-Queer Violence and Multiple Systems of Oppression
• Appendix: Methods
• Notes
• References
• Index