The Resource 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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The item Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity, C. Riley Snorton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
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- Summary
- The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas 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. 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. 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 mens' access to the female within, he 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 259 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Part I. Blacken. Anatomically speaking : ungendered flesh and the science of sex
- Trans capable : fungibility, fugitivity, and the matter of being
- Part II. Transit. Reading the "trans-" in transatlantic literature : on the "female" within Three Negro classics
- Part III. Blackout. A nightmarish silhouette : racialization and the long exposure of transition
- DeVine's cut : public memory and the politics of martyrdom
- Isbn
- 9781517901738
- Label
- Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity
- Title
- Black on both sides
- Title remainder
- a racial history of trans identity
- Statement of responsibility
- C. Riley Snorton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas 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. 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. 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 mens' access to the female within, he 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Snorton, C. Riley
- Dewey number
- 306.76/80973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ77.95.U6
- LC item number
- S66 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Transgender people
- African American transgender people
- Transgender people
- Racism
- Label
- Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity, C. Riley Snorton
- Bar code
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- 31223123476260
- 31223123558927
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-243) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. Blacken. Anatomically speaking : ungendered flesh and the science of sex -- Trans capable : fungibility, fugitivity, and the matter of being -- Part II. Transit. Reading the "trans-" in transatlantic literature : on the "female" within Three Negro classics -- Part III. Blackout. A nightmarish silhouette : racialization and the long exposure of transition -- DeVine's cut : public memory and the politics of martyrdom
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9781517901738
- Lccn
- 2017042186
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)982091801
- Label
- Black on both sides : a racial history of trans identity, C. Riley Snorton
- Bar code
-
- 31223123476260
- 31223123558927
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-243) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. Blacken. Anatomically speaking : ungendered flesh and the science of sex -- Trans capable : fungibility, fugitivity, and the matter of being -- Part II. Transit. Reading the "trans-" in transatlantic literature : on the "female" within Three Negro classics -- Part III. Blackout. A nightmarish silhouette : racialization and the long exposure of transition -- DeVine's cut : public memory and the politics of martyrdom
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 259 pages
- Isbn
- 9781517901738
- Lccn
- 2017042186
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)982091801
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