Shifting Perspectives on Intersectionality journeys through U.S. history and contemporary society, applying intersectional lenses to topics as diverse as the massive resistance to school desegregation, the Black Power Movement, controlling images of Black womanhood, representations of mental illness and trauma, and drag performance. Illuminating systemic oppression, marginalization, and complex power structures, the essays in this volume highlight intersectionality's interdisciplinary adaptability and offer new perspectives

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Grit Grigoleit-Richter, Dr., is a researcher and lecturer at the Professorship of American Studies / Cultural and Media Studies, University of Passau, Germany. She authored Integrationsvarianten Die Hmong in den USA (2009) and is currently the principal investigator in the BMBF-funded research project A Critical Race and Intersectional Perspective on the U. S. American Welfare State. Her main research interests include structural racism in the U. S., critical race theory, intersectionality, diaspora and immigration, and racialized minorities in the U. S.

Florian Zitzelsberger is a Ph. D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Passau, Germany, whose research is situated at the intersections of queer theory, Performance Studies, and narrative theory. Among others, his work has appeared in Amerikastudien, Comparative American Studies , and the Journal of Narrative Theory. Florian is co-editor of Posthuman Drag, a special issue of Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture . In 2023 / 24, he was a visiting scholar at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.