Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientationengages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion of identity as socially constructed, yet interconnected and shaped by cultural associations, expanding on the idea that we as individuals live in anidentity matrixour self-concept, experiences, and interpretations originate or are developed from the culture in which we are embedded. The shaping of an individuals identity, communication, and worldview can be read, shaped, and understood through life, art, popular culture, mass media, and cross-cultural interactions, among other things. The aptness of this work lies in its ability to provide a meaningful and creative space to analyze identity and identity politics, highlighting the complexities of identity formation in the twenty-first century.

Sheena C. Howardis assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Rider University.

Introduction,Sheena C. HowardIn Teaching Persona,Shelly BellPart I: Queer Identity MatrixChapter 1: Coming In/Out of the Closet: Living In-Between Singlehood and Relationship(s) through a Gay Asian Body,Shinsuke EguchiChapter 2: Divided Loyalties: Exploring the Intersections of Queerness, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender,Richard G. Jones, Jr.Chapter 3: Young Black and Latino Gay Mens Experiences with Racial Microaggressions,Lourdes D. FollinsChapter 4: Organizing Foreignness: Of Aliens, Permanence, and Shape-Shifters,Rahul MitraThe Origin of Coming Out,Shelly BellPart II: Identity FormationChapter 5: Latinas in the United States: Articulating Discourses of Identity and Difference,Claudia BucciferroChapter 6: Me and My Shadow(s): Essays of Self and Identity,Brad CrownoverChapter 7: Reliving Oppression: Becoming Black, Becoming Gay,Godfried Asante and Myra N. RobertsChapter 8: Coming Out, Covering, Connecting: De/Colonizing Epistemics of Ethnography and Ethnographer Positionality in Malaysia,Cheryl L. NicholasWhat Truth?,Shelly BellPart III: Mass Mediated RepresentationsChapter 9: Trans*ing Priestly Performances: Re-Reading Gender Potentiality in ErdrichsThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Benjamin LeMaster and Meggie MapesChapter 10: Marking My Black Feminist Heterosexism: Taking Autoethnographic Notes fromPariah, Rachel Alicia GriffinChapter 11: Heterosexual Masculinity, the Self, and Social Needs: The Homicidal Hazing of Robert Champion,Michele K. LewisChapter 12: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation within the YouTube-based "It Gets Better Project",Laurie Phillips HondaChapter 13: "Dont Even Go There!" A Black Womens Standpoint and Conversation Analysis of an Online Discussion about Racial Labeling,Darlene K. Drummond and Sakile Kai CamaraChapter 14: Friends ofBatman (And Dorothy): Queering theGreen Hornet Television Series,Bruce E. Drushel