C. Riley Snorton
Author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
About the Author
C. Riley Snorton is associate professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Cornell University and visiting associate professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on show more the Down Low (Minnesota, 2014). show less
Works by C. Riley Snorton
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- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
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Just an incredible book; Snorton carefully hammers home his points again and again, drawing together transness and blackness through fungibility, movement, and transversality. It's a book that is so beautifully couched in the works of women of color feminism, queer of color and trans of color critique, and it's something I'm going to be chewing on for a really long time as I think about ways to teach and also write trans history broadly. Just a magnificent book, truly.
Though this book includes many interesting stories and sources (I found the included images particulrly remarkable), its analysis rarely hits the mark for me. Maybe I just don't have the right academic background, but I frequently found it, oddly, both overwritten and frustratingly vague.
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- Works
- 4
- Members
- 495
- Popularity
- #49,935
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 14