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Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity / C. Riley Snorton.

Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity / C. Riley Snorton.
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TF1260947 306.76 SNO
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Record Number 18767
ISBN 9781517901738 (pb : alk. paper)
Location 306.76 SNO
Author Snorton, C. Riley, (author).
Title Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity / C. Riley Snorton.
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Collation xiv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
General Note Collection: LGBTIQA+ Adult
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-243) and index.
Contents Note 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.
Summary Note "'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." - Back cover.
Subject Transgender people -- United States
African American transgender people
Transgender people -- Identity
Racism -- United States
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