Black on Both Sides
A Racial History of Trans Identity
by C. Riley Snorton
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appears in Lgbtq, History, and Fiction.
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America_x0092_s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other midcentury trans narratives_x0097_ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figu...
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