Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

Title: Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity Author: C Riley Snorton ISBN: 9781517901738 Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press Published: 2017 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Non-Fiction 1623166 Publisher Description: Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William 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 Afric