The Economization of Life. By Michelle Murphy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India. By Daisy Deomampo. New York: New York University Press, 2016.Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy. By Laura Harrison. New York: New York University Press, 2016.

Signs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-269
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Denbow
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York University ◽  
Commercial Surrogacy ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Brown Bodies

scholarly journals Review of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matthew Brim (Duke University Press)

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Switzer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
New York University ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Career Training ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The University

The review focuses on the practical work of Poor Queer Studies. Rather than retheorize queer studies from the class perspective of "rich" and "poor," Brim makes a case study of his work as a professor of queer studies at the College of Staten Island (CSI). Insisting on the particularity of his and his students’ relationship to queer studies, Brim makes an example of the work they do together in the classroom, and the ways they live their studies on public transit, at home with their families, and in their part-time jobs. This review questions the extent to which poor queer studies differs from the modern university’s reduction of all education to career-training. Brim’s praxis of poor queer studies is always undertaken with individual students in specific socio-economic circumstances—a particularity that makes it different than market-driven job-training. This review also raises questions about the general applicability of this case study. Would poor queer studies work elsewhere as it does at CSI? Berlant’s idea of exemplarity is helpful in answering this question. Unlike examples that confirm a norm, there are examples that change norms. Brim’s example of poor queer studies works to exemplarily change what counts as normal. Practically, this means no longer thinking of queer studies as operating without class distinction—and reclaiming part of the work of the discipline from seemingly classless rich queer studies at places like Yale and New York University.

Book Reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Matthew Carey ◽  
Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj ◽  
Eve Monique Zucker ◽  
Younes Saramifar ◽  
Louis Frankenthaler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
New York University ◽  
Minority Politics ◽  
Conscientious Objectors ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Indochina War

THE GRECANICI OF SOUTHERN ITALY: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics By Stavroula Pipyrou. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 256 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4830-2.FOUR DECADES ON: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War Edited by Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 334 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-8223-5474-1.FROM THE LAND OF SHADOWS: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora By Khatharya Um. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 272 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-1-4798-0473-3.NATIONALISM, LANGUAGE, AND MUSLIM EXCEPTIONALISM By Tristan James Mabry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 264 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4691-9.CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN ISRAEL: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty By Erica Weiss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 216 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4592-9.

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