A White Queer Geek at School: Intersections of Whiteness and Queer Identity

Autor/in	Ma'ayan, Hadar Dubowsky
Titel	A White Queer Geek at School: Intersections of Whiteness and Queer Identity
Quelle	In: Journal of LGBT Youth, 8 (2011) 1, S.84-98 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1936-1653
Schlagwörter	Homosexuality; Middle School Students; Minority Groups; Females; Public Schools; Whites; Socioeconomic Status; Resilience (Psychology); Social Bias; Identification (Psychology); Teacher Role; Social Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homosexualität; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Ethnische Minderheit; Weibliches Geschlecht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; White; Weißer; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Lehrerrolle; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung
Abstract	Tetra is an "out" middle school student. She identifies as a "lesbian," a "tomboy," "butch," an "oddball," and a "geek." These identifications could place her as a marginalized and alienated student. However, Tetra was a successful student, both socially and academically. At her diverse public middle school, Tetra was privileged in her Whiteness and economic class status. Tetra's story is the tale of how one lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender student used her privilege and power to counteract the negative impact of homophobia she faced at school. She was an outsider at school, and she used this oppositional identity for both survival and to maintain her own privilege. Tetra speaks to how we as educators can help students become active agents in handling their marginalizations and confronting their own race and class-based privilege. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10