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Semi Queer Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
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Title
Semi Queer [electronic resource] : Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers / Anne Balay.
ISBN
1469647117
9781469647111
9781469647098 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 Global Cultural Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 20, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Starting : whoop 'n' ride : why people choose trucking, and how they prepare
Rolling : sailboat races : the web of regulations that shape the work of trucking
Stopping : getting loaded : customers, shippers, receivers
Rolling : drag and fly : race, racism, and trucking
Stopping : Jesus, take the wheel : road accidents, PTSD, and fear
Rolling : grabbing gears : the appeal of constant motion, especially to gay, black, and trans drivers
Stopping : the pickle park : truck stops and rest areas
Rolling : draggin' ass : persistence and endurance are working-class values
Stopping : what's your twenty? : Locating the queer trucker's body.
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