Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)
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- Synopsis
- In Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet GutiƩrrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.
- Copyright:
- 2019
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781478002338
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781478000662, 9781478000877
- Publisher:
- Duke University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/12/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Duke University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Grade Levels:
- College Sophomore
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.