On accountability: Towards a white middle-class queer 'post identity politics identity politics'

Ethnicities

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 344-357

  Riggs, Damien W ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

accountability; queer; race and class privilege; recognition; sexuality; whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955997422     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796810372300     Document Type: Article

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