Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender and Sexualities)

Sumerau, J. E.; Grollman, Eric Anthony

ISBN 10: 1793609802 / ISBN 13: 9781793609809

Published by Lexington Books, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender and Sexualities)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1793609802
• ISBN 13: 9781793609809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements examines how people respond to minority movements in ways that maintain existing patterns of racial and gender inequality. By studying the Black Lives Matter and Transgender Bathroom Access movement efforts, J.E. Sumerau and Eric Anthony Grollman analyze how cisgender white people define minority movements in relation to their existing notions of United States social norms; react to minority movements utilizing racial, classed, gendered, and sexual stereotypes that reinforce racism, sexism, and cissexism in society; and propose ways that racial and gender minorities could gain conditional acceptance by behaving in ways cisgender white people find more comfortable and normal. Throughout this work, Sumerau and Grollman note how assumptions about whiteness and cisnormativity are spread as cisgender white people respond to racial and gender movements seeking social change.

About the Author

J. E. Sumerau is assistant professor and director of applied sociology at the University of Tampa.