Living Queer History (eBook)

Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City

G. Samantha Rosenthal (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
288 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6581-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today,and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbolsthey need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future.Living Queer History tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journeycoming out and transitioning as a transgender womanin the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerationalsouthern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present.

Autor

Gregory Samantha Rosenthal is Associate Professor of History at Roanoke College and co-founder of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 13 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Appalachia • auto-theory • Black LGBTQ communities • Black queer history • community history • Gay History • historic preservation • history of Roanoke, Virginia • lesbian history • lgbt history • LGBTQ history • Oral History • Public History • queer Appalachia • queer history • queer memoir • queer memory • queer public history • queer space • queer spaces • southern history • southwest virginia • transgender history • transgender memoir • Urban History
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6581-6 / 1469665816
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6581-8 / 9781469665818