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Mance, Ajuan Maria.
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Mance, Ajuan Maria.
Mance, Ajuan Maria -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Gender identity -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Blacks -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Gender
studies
:
true
confessions
of an
accidental
outlaw
/ by Ajuan Mance.
by
Mance, Ajuan Maria.
Rosarium Publishing, 2024.
Call #:
741.5973 M268g
Subjects
Mance, Ajuan Maria -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Gender
identity -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Blacks -- Race identity -- Comic books, strips, etc.
ISBN:
9781732638860 (pbk.)
Description:
82 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"When you're the only Black kid in the honors program or (any program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two Women, Black on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, it's not your
gender
non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice about you. Still, there are other ways of being different -- and feeling different -- that can't be attributed to race, especially if you're one of the people whose awareness of the unwritten rules of what it means to be a boy or a girl (or a man or a woman) is tempered by the fact that most of those rules don't feel quite right. In
Gender
Studies
:
True
Confessions
of an
Accidental
Outlaw
, Ajuan Mance gives comic treatment to the challenges, complexities, and occasional absurdity of life at the crossroads of race,
gender
, and geekiness. This graphic memoir answers important questions like: How many preschoolers have to mistake you for your dad before you actually start to forget your own name; if a Black girl is awful at double-dutch jump rope is it a reflection on her
gender
identity, racial identity, or both; and is viola player a
gender
or just a sexual orientation? Ajuan Mance's comic
Gender
Confessions
take up each of these questions and more, as it invites to share in those moments that mark the path of a
gender
explorer."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Graphic non-fiction.
Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc.
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