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Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identity

Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identity

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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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 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.

AWARDS

John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association

William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association

American Library Association Stonewall Book Award — Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book

Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction

Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

Honorable Mention: Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History from the Organization of American Historians

About The Author:

C. Riley Snorton is associate professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Cornell University and visiting associate professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (Minnesota, 2014).

Page Count: 259

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