Black on Both Sides : A Racial History of Trans Identity /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snorton, C. Riley (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jorgensen, Christine, > 1926-1989.
Transgender people > Identity.
Transgender people.
Racism.
African American transgender people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Transgenres > Identite.
Transgenres noirs americains.
Transgenres > États-Unis.
Racism > United States.
Transgender people > United States.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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