Exceptional feelings, ordinary violence
Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (2009) and the work of LGBTQ activists in the U.S. I argue that the act consolidates the U.S. nation-state’s monopoly on violence by relying on criminal law as a cognitive apparatus and stifles the work of LGBTQ activists and cultural labor to e...
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| Language: | en_US |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22849 |