Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity / C. Riley Snorton.
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 tr...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Anatomically speaking: ungendered flesh and the science of sex
- Trans capable: fungibility, fugitivity, and the matter of being
- Reading the "trans-" in transatlantic literature: on the "female" within three Negro classics
- A nightmarish silhouette: racialization and the long exposure of transition
- Devine's cut: public memory and the politics of martyrdom.