A murder over a girl : justice, gender, junior high
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Donelson - Adult Non-Fiction | 364.1523 C7896m | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
High school students -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
McInerney, Brandon David.
Murder -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
School shootings -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
Transgender youth -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
Transsexual students -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
Transsexual youth -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
True crime stories.
McInerney, Brandon David.
Murder -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
School shootings -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
Transgender youth -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
Transsexual students -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
Transsexual youth -- California -- Oxnard -- Case studies.
True crime stories.
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Published
New York, NY : Henry Holt and Co., 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
UPC
40025852838
Notes
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"A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate. On Feb. 12, 2008, at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed his classmate, Larry King, who had recently begun to call himself "Leticia" and wear makeup and jewelry to school. Profoundly shaken by the news, and unsettled by media coverage that sidestepped the issues of gender identity and of race integral to the case, psychologist Ken Corbett traveled to LA to attend the trial. As visions of victim and perpetrator were woven and unwoven in the theater of the courtroom, a haunting picture emerged not only of the two young teenagers, but also of spectators altered by an atrocity and of a community that had unwittingly gestated a murder. Drawing on firsthand observations, extensive interviews and research, as well as on his decades of academic work on gender and sexuality, Corbett holds each murky facet of this case up to the light, exploring the fault lines of memory and the lacunae of uncertainty behind facts. Deeply compassionate, and brimming with wit and acute insight, A Murder Over a Girl is a riveting and stranger-than-fiction drama of the human psyche"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Corbett, K. (2016). A murder over a girl: justice, gender, junior high . Henry Holt and Co..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Corbett, Ken. 2016. A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High. Henry Holt and Co.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Corbett, Ken. A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High Henry Holt and Co, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Corbett, Ken. A Murder Over a Girl: Justice, Gender, Junior High Henry Holt and Co., 2016.
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