White people love to talk about politics around the dinner table, which might explain the continuing popularity of the Thanksgiving holiday. More than any other day or time on the American calendar or schedule (which are typically governed by all manner of rules and directives about “polite company” and social taboos), Thanksgiving is the day when white [...]
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On the Relationship Between Homophobia, Heteronormativity, Queerness, and U.S. Exceptionalism
Terrorist Assmeblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Puar, Jasbir K. Duke University Press Books: 2007
category: Things General
On Women in the ’60s
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s Coontz, Stephanie. Basic Books: 2011
category: Things General