Verlag: MIT., 2020
ISBN 10: 0262043688 ISBN 13: 9780262043687
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Verlag: University Of Minnesota Press Dez 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1517901731 ISBN 13: 9781517901738
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of theJohn Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of theWilliam Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies 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 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.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.
Verlag: MIT Press, 2020
ISBN 10: 0262043688 ISBN 13: 9780262043687
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Verlag: Combined Academic Publ., 2017
ISBN 10: 1517901731 ISBN 13: 9781517901738
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Über den AutorC. 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.
Verlag: MIT Press Mai 2020, 2020
ISBN 10: 0262043688 ISBN 13: 9780262043687
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essays, conversations, and artist portfolios confront questions at the intersection of race, institutional life, and representation.