Racism, Congressional Hearings, and GLBT Politics: Stop Excluding African Americans
On November 5th, 2009, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will hold hearings on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). The hearings will take place in a city where over half of its citizens are African American. According to the Washington D.C. Transgender Needs Assessment Survey performed in 2000, only 58 percent of transgender respondents in Washington D.C. were employed, 29% reported no annual source of income, 31% reported that their annual income was under $10,000, and 15% reported that they lost a job due to employment discrimination. I’m sure the folks over at Transgender Health Empowerment could help find a suitable speaker. Their website states: “Transgender Health Empowerment, Inc. (T.H.E.) was originally founded in 1996 by transgenders for transgenders. Initially, T.H.E. operated as an African American focused, non-profit, community-based organization to address the housing, employment, heath care, and disease prevention needs of transgender clients. In 2003, T.H.E. received
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Community significance
“Racism, Congressional Hearings, and GLBT Politics: Stop Excluding African Americans” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging labor, economics, and institutions. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning transgender identity and history. Published in 2009 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how labor, economics, and institutions was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is labor and employment policy and housing and social services. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and labor, economics, and institutions, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life78%
- 3Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life39%
- 4Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict29%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community22%
- 6Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life17%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 220%
Policy framing
- 1100%
- 219%
Editorial function
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 4 year(s) before the theme reached its highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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