{"product_id":"black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity","title":"Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity","description":"Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018\nWinner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018\nWinner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018\nWinner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018\nWinner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies\n\nThe 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 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.\nDrawing 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.\nRevealing 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1517901731\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1517901731.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Snorton, C. Riley\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41657611485242,"sku":"DBV.1517901731.G","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1517901731-0.jpg?v=1789612376","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/black-on-both-sides-a-racial-history-of-trans-identity","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}