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The story of Christine Jorgensen Americas first prominent transsexual narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era Her celebrity however has obscured other midcentury trans narratives Their erasure from trans history masks the ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects In Black on Both Sides C Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the midnineteenth century to presentday antiblack and antitrans legislation and violence

Drawing on a varied archive of materials Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable In tracing the genealogies of blackness and transness Snorton follows multiple trajectories from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women to the negation of blackness

Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of cross dressing and black literary works that express black mens access to the female within Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993 Reconstructing these trajectories furthers our capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds