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Black on Both Sides

A Racial History of Trans Identity

by C. Riley Snorton · 2017 · 256 pages

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Emma Watson

About This Book

An academic study examining the intertwined histories of blackness and transgender identity in the United States. Tracing genealogies from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, it analyzes how the legacy of slavery and racialized gender constructs laid the foundation for modern understandings of gender mutability.

Book Details

Published

2017

Pages

256

Language

en

ISBN

9781517901738

Awards & Recognition

John Boswell Prize (2018)William Sanders Scarborough Prize (2018)Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction (2018)Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies

Audiobook Available

8h 51m
Narrated by C. Riley Snorton

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