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Doing Black and Trans History

December 5, 2018December 10, 2018 Jennifer C. Nash #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, archives, black lives matter, Gender, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the fourth chapter: ‘A Nightmarish

Transness As A Category For Possibility

December 4, 2018December 7, 2018 Rachel Zellars #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the second chapter: ‘Trans Capable:

Gynecology and the Ungendering of Black Women

December 4, 2018December 7, 2018 Alejandro S. Escalante #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, black lives matter, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the first chapter: ‘Anatomically Speaking:

Black Feminism: The Beginning and End of a World

December 3, 2018December 7, 2018 L.H. Stallings #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, black feminism, Black radicalism, Gender, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. For this roundtable, I have been

From Protestant Supremacy to Christian Slavery

November 20, 2018November 26, 2018 Christopher Cannon Jones race, racism, religion, slavery

Early in the morning on April 7, 1712, a group of approximately thirty enslaved individuals launched a dramatic revolt, killing