Black on Both Sides av C. Riley Snorton

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<DIV><P><B>Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018<BR/> Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018<BR/> Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018<BR/> Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018<BR/> Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies</B><BR/><BR/> 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 <I>Black on Both Sides</I>, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transn