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BOOK
Title Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity / C. Riley Snorton
Imprint Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
©2017

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 Garaget:Vuxen Facklitteratur (300-399)  306.76 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript xiv, 259 pages illustrations 23 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
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-dressing and 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 Don't Cry out of narrative convenience
Subject Hbtqi-personer
Transpersoner
Transsexuella
Transsexualism
Afro-amerikaner
Rasism
African American transgender people
Transgender people -- United States
Transgender people -- Identity
Racism -- United States
Transgender Persons
African Americans
Racism
Gender Identity
Sexual and Gender Minorities
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies.
African American transgender people.
Racism.
Transgender people.
Transgender people -- Identity.
Förenta staterna
United States.
Nonfiction
Classmark 306.7680973
Add Title Racial history of trans identity
ISBN/ISSN 9781517901738 paperback
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