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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
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'Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity' by C. Riley Snorton is a thoroughly researched book that looks at gender and race, with an eye to the Black trans experience. Snorton does an excellent job of providing background information on the part that gender played in Black people's experiences during slavery and how that has set a precedent for how Black trans people are treated in the United States. They do this through highlighting the specific lived experiences of different individuals throughout history.
This book is very much a historical text. I would definitely recommend gong into this book knowing that it is an academic text and can be quite dense due to use of academic language. I think this would be a good book to read alongside a book that deals with the current lived experiences of Black trans individuals as it provides a lot of important context. If you are interested in the concepts that it tackles I would definitely recommend it. Just go in knowing that it is both a hard and important read that is going to take time to digest and fully process.
This book is very much a historical text. I would definitely recommend gong into this book knowing that it is an academic text and can be quite dense due to use of academic language. I think this would be a good book to read alongside a book that deals with the current lived experiences of Black trans individuals as it provides a lot of important context. If you are interested in the concepts that it tackles I would definitely recommend it. Just go in knowing that it is both a hard and important read that is going to take time to digest and fully process.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Grief, Murder, Slavery, Police brutality, Violence, and Hate crime
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