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Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identity
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Winner Of The John Boswell Prize From The American Historical Association 2018Winner Of The William Sanders Scarborough Prize From The Modern Language Association 2018Winner Of An American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner Of Lambda Literary Award For Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner Of The Sylvia Rivera Award In Transgender Studies From The Center For Lesbian And Gay Studiesthe Story Of Christine Jorgensen, Americas First Prominent Transsexual, Famously Narrated Trans Embodiment In The Postwar Era. Her Celebrity, However, Has Obscured Other Midcentury Trans Narrativesones 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. In Black On Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton Identifies Multiple Intersections Between Blackness And Transness From The Midnineteenth Century To Presentday Antiblack And Antitrans Legislation And Violence.Drawing On A Deep And Varied Archive Of Materialsearly Sexological Texts, Fugitive Slave Narratives, Afromodernist Literature, Sensationalist Journalism, Hollywood Filmssnorton 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 Dressing And Canonical Black Literary Works That Express Black Mens Access To The Female Within, Black On Both Sides 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. Reconstructing These Theoretical And Historical Trajectories Furthers Our Imaginative Capacities To Conceive More Livable Black And Trans Worlds.
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