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024	7		_a10.1007/978-94-6209-761-2 _2DOI
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100	1		_aHarper, A. Breeze, _eauthor.
245	0	0	_aScars : _ba A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England / _cA. Breeze Harper.
246	3		_aA Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBrill | Sense, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSocial Fictions Series ; _v12
490	1		_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
505	0	0	_aPreliminary Material -- Preface -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Epilogue -- About the Author.
520			_aScars is a novel about whiteness, racism, and breaking past the normative boundaries of heterosexuality, as experienced through eighteen year old Savannah Penelope Sales. Savannah is a Black girl, born and raised in a white, working class, and rural New England town. She is in denial of her lesbian sexuality, harbors internalized racism about her body, and is ashamed of being poor. She lives with her ailing mother whose Emphysema is a symptom of a mysterious past of suffering and sacrifice that Savannah is not privy to. When Savannah takes her first trip to a major metropolitan city for two days, she never imagines how it will affect her return back home to her mother … or her capacity to not only love herself, but also those who she thought were her enemies. Scars is about the journey of friends and family who love Savannah and try to help her heal, all while they too battle their own wounds and scars of being part of multiple systems of oppression and power. Ultimately, Scars makes visible the psychological trauma and scarring that legacies of colonialism have caused to both the descendants of the colonized and the colonizer … and the potential for healing and reconciliation for everyone willing to embark on the journey. As a work of social fiction born out of years of critical race, Black feminist, and critical whiteness studies scholarship, Scars engages the reader to think about USA culture through the lenses of race, whiteness, working-class sensibilities, sexual orientation, and how rural geography influences identity. Scars can be used as a springboard for discussion, self-reflection and social reflection for students enrolled in American Studies, Sociology, Women’s Studies, Sexuality Studies, African American Studies, human geography, LGBTQ studies and critical whiteness studies courses, or it can be read entirely for pleasure.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aAfrican American teenage girls _xFiction.
650		0	_aAfrican American lesbians _xFiction.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tScars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England, _dLeiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2014 _w9789462097605
830		0	_aSocial Fictions Series ; _v12.
830		0	_aEducational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-761-2
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