Affirming Multivocal Humanities: On Campus and Beyond: The State of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality
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Whether individual or collaborative, funded or unfunded, our faculty are leading national networks and conferences, providing research frameworks, engaging students, traversing international archives and making significant contributions to UMD's research enterprise.
Our faculty are at the forefront of their fields, producing transformative knowledge across the multiple disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas, within and beyond academia, that constitute women, gender, and sexuality studies.
The department is home to numerous research programs and events including annual symposia like the DC Queer Studies Symposium and Harriet Tubman Day, student conferences like our biannual Graduate student conference Interventions, and research collaborations like the University of Maryland's Indigenous Futures Lab.
In addition to our larger events, each year is filled with exciting research activities and events including book talks and gatherings that bring together feminist scholars and activists from across the university and across the globe.
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Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice
This coedited by Dr. Ruth E. Zambrana and Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill collects ten previously unpublished essays on intersectionality
Author/Lead: Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ruth Enid Zambrana
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The United States is known as a "melting pot" yet this mix tends to be volatile and contributes to a long history of oppression, racism, and bigotry.
Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today. The book showcases innovative contributions that expand our understanding of how inequality affects people of color, demonstrates the ways public policies reinforce existing systems of inequality, and shows how research and teaching using an intersectional perspective compels scholars to become agents of change within institutions. By offering practical applications for using intersectional knowledge, Emerging Intersections will help bring us one step closer to achieving positive institutional change and social justice.