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Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity / C. Riley Snorton.
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Snorton, C. Riley
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English
Published/Created
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
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xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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HQ77.95.U6 S66 2017
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Transgender people
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United States
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African American transgender people
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Transgender people
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Identity
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Racism against Black people
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African Americans
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Gender identity
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Two-spirit people
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Indigenous Studies
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Summary note
The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives-ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials-early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films-Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the father of American gynecology,to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible. Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of cross dressingand canonical black literary works that express black mens access to the female within, he concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Dont Cry out of narrative convenience.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-243) and index.
Contents
Anatomically speaking: ungendered flesh and the science of sex
Trans capable: fungibility, fugitivity, and the matter of being
Reading the "trans-" in transatlantic literature: on the "female" within three Negro classics
A nightmarish silhouette: racialization and the long exposure of transition
Devine's cut: public memory and the politics of martyrdom.
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Racial history of trans identity
ISBN
9781517901738 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
1517901731 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
9781517901721 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
1517901723 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
LCCN
2017042186
OCLC
982091801
Other standard number
99974554295
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