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Black on Both Sides : A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton (2017, Trade Paperback)
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He considers the pasts that have been discarded to create blackness and transness as categories of social valuation; the insights that occur when ignoring these social markers; and how condensing transness into the category of transgender is a racial narrative, as well as how blackness is articulated within transness.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-101517901731
ISBN-139781517901738
eBay Product ID (ePID)240109337
Product Key Features
Edition3
Book TitleBlack on both Sides : a Racial History of Trans Identity
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLgbt Studies / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2017
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science
AuthorC. Riley Snorton
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-042186
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"The research done here is stellar."--Washington Blade "This book is an outstanding contribution to conversations about black and trans studies; it will transform scholarly understandings of both fields and the intersections between them."-- CHOICE " Black on Both Sides reminds us that when we are careful about how we tell stories, we get new, nuanced stories that expose systems for what they are and that honor historically ignored populations."-- Autostraddle, " Black on Both Sides challenges the historical account of trans studies invention by excavating a black trans presence and persona long before modern articulations of such. C. Riley Snorton offers us a way to read the historical record in a fashion that requires the unthought to be the basis of the foundation for our claims of newness, demonstrating that there is no revision of what it means to be human without coming through blackness, past and present."--Rinaldo Walcott, author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora, and Black Studies "C. Riley Snorton's Black on Both Sides is a welcome contribution to black studies with the potential to influence future directions in the burgeoning field of transgender studies. It is rigorous scholarship that manages to be imaginative and timely."--Kara Keeling, author of The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense "In a beautifully written and brilliant intervention and extension--the first full length book 'to examine the historical and contemporary importance of race to the constitution of "trans gender"'--C. Riley Snorton identifies and performs a black trans reading practice, from Anarcha to Transgender Days of Remembrance."--Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, "The research done here is stellar."--Washington Blade "This book is an outstanding contribution to conversations about black and trans studies; it will transform scholarly understandings of both fields and the intersections between them."-- CHOICE " Black on Both Sides reminds us that when we are careful about how we tell stories, we get new, nuanced stories that expose systems for what they are and that honor historically ignored populations."-- Autostraddle " Black on Both Sides offers a new imagining of both black and trans history beginning in the early 19th century through the present." -- Into News
Dewey Decimal306.7680973
Table Of ContentPreface Introduction Part I. Blacken 1. Anatomically Speaking: Ungendered Flesh and the Science of Sex 2. Trans Capable: Fungibility, Fugitivity, and the Matter of Being Part II. Transit 3. Reading the Trans- in Transatlantic Literature: On the "Female" Within the Three Negro Classics Part III. Blackout 4. A Nightmarish Silhouette: Racialization and the Long Exposure of Transition 5. DeVine's Cut: Public Memory and the Politics of Martydom Acknowledgements Notes Index
SynopsisWinner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies 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. 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 men's 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 Don't Cry out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds., In Black on Both Sides , C. RileySnorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness fromthe mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislationand violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials, Snortonattends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided thefoundations for an understanding of gender as mutable.
LC Classification NumberHQ77.95.U6S66 2017
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Excellent book-- I have been wanting to get a copy for awhile now! Everything came quicker than I expected and was as described.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
