BLACK ON BOTH SIDES: A RACIAL HISTORY OF TRANS IDENTITY

BLACK ON BOTH SIDES: A RACIAL HISTORY OF TRANS IDENTITYThe 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,

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Collaborating on these two stories

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Paperback: 384 pages