Hybrid
Bisexuals, Multiracials, and Other Misfits Under American Law
Publication Year: 1996
The United States, and the West in general, has always organized society along bipolar lines. We are either gay or straight, male or female, white or not, disabled or not.
In recent years, however, America seems increasingly aware of those who defy such easy categorization. Yet, rather than being welcomed for the challenges that they offer, people living the gap are often ostracized by all the communities to which they might belong. Bisexuals, for instance, are often blamed for spreading AIDS to the heterosexual community and are regarded with suspicion by gays and lesbians. Interracial couples are rendered invisible through monoracial recordkeeping that confronts them at school, at work, and on official documents. In Hybrid, Ruth Colker argues that our bipolar classification system obscures a genuine understanding of the very nature of subordination. Acknowledging that categorization is crucial and unavoidable in a world of practical problems and day-to-day conflicts, Ruth Colker shows how categories can and must be improved for the good of all.
Published by: NYU Press
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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

7. Bipolar Injustice: The Moral Code
Dr. Jean Jew, an Asian-American woman, is a tenured professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine.1 In the 1980s, she was subjected to a relentless campaign of racial and sexual slurs because of her purported relationship with her supervisor...

8. Invisible Hybrids under the U.S. Census
The point of this book is not that we should abandon categories. A legal system without categories is impossible, and a society without a legal system invites anarchy. If one thing is clear about American society, it is that it always will be dependent...
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E-ISBN-13: 9780814772195
E-ISBN-10: 0814772196
Print-ISBN-13: 9780814715383
Print-ISBN-10: 0814715389
Page Count: 176
Publication Year: 1996
OCLC Number: 45843999
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