FREE BOOKS in PDF form to educate oneself on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture!

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In need of some new reading to spur your mind? Here is a great list of FREE BOOKS in PDF form to educate oneself on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture! 

Please feel free to share this with anyone who you feel might benefit. Special thanks you to Tracie of Emory University.

• The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• Angela Y. Davis – Are Prisons Obsolete? 
• Angela Y. Davis – Race, Women, and Class 
• The Communist Manifesto – Marx and Engels 
• Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf 
• Feminism is for Everybody – bell hooks 
• Faces at the Bottom of the Well – Derrick Bell
• I am Your Sister – Audre Lorde 
• Black Feminist Thought-Patricia Hill Collins 
• Gender Trouble – Judith Butler
• Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
• Medical Apartheid – Harriet Washington
• Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory  – edited by Michael Warner
• Colonialism/Postcolonialism – Ania Loomba 
• Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
• The Gloria Anzaldua Reader 
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
• What is Cultural Studies? – John Storey 
• Cultural Theory and Popular Culture 
• The Disability Studies Reader 

Conference: Disrupting Visibility: The Politics of Passing

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“Passing, it seems, threatens to call attention to the performative and contingent nature of all seemingly ‘natural’ and 'obvious’ identities.” - Linda Schlossberg

About the Conference

The goal of this conference is to explore passing as a politically loaded activity that challenges the seemingly intimate relationship between vision and knowledge, between seeing and knowing. The political strength of passing lies in its ability to disrupt structures of identification through which social life has historically been regulated, causing deep social anxiety. As such, we specifically want to question the intricate work that passing does and unravel its socio-political significance.

The idea of passing has been traditionally associated with mixed-raced individuals in the United States, whose appearance allowed them to be classified in different racial groups, mainly “white.” Passing remains a vibrant and relevant research topic in US scholarship, particularly with the emergence of ethnic studies as an academic field. The purpose of the conference is to broaden the conversation about passing beyond the US scope in order to examine how passing is experienced in different national and cultural contexts. Moreover, we want to extend the focus from racial passing to enquire as well how passing has been used to make sense of other social relations such as class, gender and sexuality, which have been at the core of feminist scholarship.

We feel this conference is both timely and provides a safe space for graduate students and early career researchers, working across a range of disciplines in the UK and beyond to debate and build valuable connections. 

Disrupting Visibility: The Politics of Passing is supported by the Graduate School, Department of Media and Communications and the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths.