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Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity

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2017

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Title:	Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity
Author:	Snorton, C. Riley, author.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Description:	xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:	"Black on Both Sides 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, C. Riley Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects:	Transgender people -- United States. African American transgender people. Transgender people -- Identity. Racism -- United States. Racism against Black people -- United States. African American LGBTQ+ people Black LGBTQ+ people
Other Title:	Racial history of trans identity
Contents:	Blacken. Anatomically speaking : ungendered flesh and the science of sex -- Trans capable : fungibility, fugitivity, and the matter of being -- Transit. Reading the "trans-" in transatlantic literature : on the "female" within Three Negro classics -- Blackout. A nightmarish silhouette : racialization and the long exposure of transition -- DeVine's cut : public memory and the politics of martyrdom.
ISBN	9781517901738

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