Faculty Publications (selected list)

WS 505: Media: Issues of Race, Class and Gender:

The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives

by Marla Brettschneider
State University of New York Press, 2006

excerpt from the book cover: The Family Flamboyant is a graceful and lucid account of the many routes to family formation. Weaving together personal experience and political analysis in an examination of how race, gender, sexuality, class, and other hierarchies function in family politics, Marla Brettschneider draws on her own experience in a Jewish, multiracial, adoptive, queer family in order to theorize about the layered realities that characterize families in the United States today. Brettschneider uses critical race politics, feminist insight, class-based analysis, and queer theory to offer a distinct and distinctly Jewish contribution to both the family debates and the larger project of justice politics.