Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1517901731
ISBN 13
9781517901738
Category
Trans/Non-binary
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Pages
256
Abstract
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s 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. In Black on Both Sides, 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.
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