Black Lives and Bathrooms - Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements

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.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Framing Minority Movements

Chapter Two: Marginalizing the Marginalized

Chapter Three: The Terms of Conditional Acceptance

Conclusions

About the author

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



Eric Anthony Grollman is associate professor of sociology at the University of Richmond.

Summary

This book examines how white cisgender people respond to movements seeking racial and gender change in the U.S. Specifically, the authors examine how racial and gender privilege shapes the ways cisgender white people make sense of and respond to the political efforts of racial, gender, and other minority populations.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Anthony Grollman, J E Sumerau, J E Grollman Sumerau, J. E. Sumerau, J. E. Grollman Sumerau
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781793609809
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-980-9
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities; Breaking Boundaries: New Horiz
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, Social discrimination and social justice, Relating to African American / Black American people, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gender studies: transgender & intersex