{"product_id":"black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity-paperback","title":"Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. Riley Snorton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 \u003cbr\u003e Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 \u003cbr\u003e Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In \u003ci\u003eBlack on Both Sides\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevealing 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,\" \u003ci\u003eBlack on Both Sides\u003c\/i\u003e concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film \u003ci\u003eBoys Don't Cry\u003c\/i\u003e out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC. 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 \u003ci\u003eNobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low \u003c\/i\u003e(Minnesota, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978472194349,"sku":"9781517901738","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/NWpqMVY0U2N4WGVIRzZaUzBXVE1odz09.webp?v=1775805354","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}