In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing up Brown and Queer Memoir Scientists

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In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing up Brown and Queer Memoir ScientistsA thought provoking coming of age memoir about growing up brown and queer in a Southwest city invested in urban development. Raised in an adobe house built by their mother, the author takes readers to a mid 20th century barrio that existed on the social margins of Tucson, Arizona despite sitting a little more than a mile away from the central business district. Born in 1955, and nicknamed La Butch by their family, Lydia Otero knew they were queer the