Black on both sides: a racial history of trans identity

Preface

Introduction.

Part I. Blacken: 1. Anatomically speaking : ungendered flesh and the science of sex

2. Trans capable : fungibility, fugitivity, and the matter of being.

Part II. Transit: 3. Reading the "trans-" in transatlantic literature : on the "female" within Three Negro classics.

Part III. Blackout 4. A nightmarish silhouette : racialization and the long exposure of transition

5. DeVine's cut : public memory and the politics of martyrdom.

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index.