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 the Down Low (Minnesota, 2014).
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
the 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 Martydom
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
