Article
What's a Nice, Straight, White Guy Doing in an Essay Like This?!!! Privilege, oppression and the binary politics of positionality
Social Alternatives
(2016)
Abstract
An essay is presented on definitions of various social identity categories which include gender, race, sexual orientation. It offers information on superordinate forms of social identity and social interactions such as heteronormativity and transphobic conception, and assertion of centric and supremacist ideation.
Keywords
- group identity,
- sexual orientation,
- social interaction,
- heteronormativity,
- transphobia in language
Disciplines
Publication Date
2016
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Citation Information
Jason A Laker. "What's a Nice, Straight, White Guy Doing in an Essay Like This?!!! Privilege, oppression and the binary politics of positionality" Social Alternatives Vol. 35 Iss. 3 (2016) p. 57 - 60 ISSN: 0155-0306 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jason_laker/77/