{"product_id":"convenient-discrimination-d-travers-scott-9781666960198","title":"Convenient Discrimination: Crips, Queers, and Other Misfits","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhile social oppression is typically framed in terms of prejudice and hate, D. Travers Scott contends that discrimination against marginalized groups is often rooted in a shockingly banal perspective: they simply get in the way.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing primarily on disabled persons and queer persons in addition to other marginalized demographics including non-Christians and the aged, this book draws on histories and discourses of industrialization, technology, and modernist ideals of efficiency to propose a theory of \u003ci\u003ediscriminatory convenience\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConvenient Discrimination\u003c\/i\u003e places representations of queerness and disability in media texts ranging from Appalachian folk songs to \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre \u003c\/i\u003e(1974) within the context of both historic and contemporary discussions surrounding health, media, technology, and social movements to form a variety of compelling case studies. These analyses are further bolstered by Scott's own autoethnographic accounts as a queer, formerly disabled activist-scholar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book skillfully combines media studies and archival research to articulate a nuanced cultural politics of convenient discrimination, ultimately demonstrating the utility of \u003ci\u003einconvenience\u003c\/i\u003e as an analytic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. Travers Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1666960195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781666960198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"D. Travers Scott","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48801135165695,"sku":"9781666960198","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/convenient-discrimination-d-travers-scott-9781666960198","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}