My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor HistoryThis anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. The book provides a retrospective on Berube's life and work while it documents the emergence of a grassroots lesbian and gay community history movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Taken together, the essays attest to the power of history to mobilize individuals and communities to create social change. |
Contents
Allan Bérubé and the Power of Community History | 1 |
A Community Historian Exploring Queer San Francisco | 39 |
A National Historian Reexamining World War II | 83 |
A WorkingClass Intellectual Personal Reflections on Identities | 145 |
A Labor Historian Queering Work and Class | 231 |
Acknowledgments | 321 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History |
| Author | Allan Bérubé |
| Editors | John D'Emilio, Estelle B. Freedman |
| Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0807834793, 9780807834794 |
| Length | 332 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General Social Science / Gay Studies |
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