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Author Balay, Anne, author.

Title Semi queer : inside the world of gay, trans, and black truck drivers / Anne Balay.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Starting : whoop 'n' ride : why people choose trucking, and how they prepare -- Rolling : sailboat races : the web of regulations that shape the work of trucking -- Stopping : getting loaded : customers, shippers, receivers -- Rolling : drag and fly : race, racism, and trucking -- Stopping : Jesus, take the wheel : road accidents, PTSD, and fear -- Rolling : grabbing gears : the appeal of constant motion, especially to gay, black, and trans drivers -- Stopping : the pickle park : truck stops and rest areas -- Rolling : draggin' ass : persistence and endurance are working-class values -- Stopping : what's your twenty? : Locating the queer trucker's body.
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Subject Trucking -- United States -- Social conditions.
Trucking.
United States.
Social conditions.
Truck drivers -- United States.
Truck drivers.
African Americans.
African Americans.
Transgender people -- United States.
Transgender people.
Women truck drivers -- United States.
Women truck drivers.
Gay people -- United States.
Gays.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Transgender people.
Homosexuals.
Other Form: Print version: Balay, Anne. Semi queer. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] (DLC) 2018008644
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