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in which “blackness and transness emerge” from slavery to emancipation up until the popular use of the Internet in the 1990s. The book engages black feminist thought, queer- and trans-of-color critique, visual culture studies, and disability theory to explain “how the condensation of transness into the category of transgender is a racial narrative, as it also attends to how blackness finds articulation within transness” (8). Drawing on an “eclectic archive” compiled of medical illustrations, fugitive slave narratives, true crime books, and more, Snorton suggests that “To feel black in the diaspora, then, might be a trans experience” (8). He also addresses present-day anti-black and anti-trans violence, discussing in the preface of the book Laverne Cox, and the deaths of Tamara Dominguez and Black Lives Matter activist Blake Brockington. In 2017,
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M.A. in Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (2008), and he also earned his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture, with graduate certificates in Africana Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. He is a recipient of a predoctoral fellowship at the
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is "not a history per se so much as it is a set of political propositions, theories of history, and writerly experiments"(6). Snorton is interested in complicating and acknowledging the ways that blackness and transness do not follow a linear trajectory of time. Instead, Snorton focuses on the ways
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C. Riley Snorton is a transgender scholar and author. Snorton was born in the Bronx and raised in Wedgefield, SC, Sumter, SC and attended high school in Atlanta, GA. He has 3 older siblings and one younger sibling. Snorton earned an A.B. in Women and Gender Studies at Columbia University (2003), an
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2015: National Endowment for the Humanities/Schomburg Center Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library, New York Public Library, New York,
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Cambridge: MIT Press/ New Museum, 2020. Co-Editor. A collection of essays, conversations, and portfolios that offers new approaches to and questions about representational, art, and race.
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2011: Consortium for Faculty Diversity/Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Two-year Award, Media Studies Department, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.
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2010: W.E.B. Du Bois Non-Residential Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
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2009: Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
191:(2015). He is currently Professor of English Language and Literature and is jointly appointed in the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at the 241: 282:"Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife." Co-authored with Jin Haritaworn in the 188: 65: 455:"ASE Faculty Profile > Department of American Studies and Ethnicity > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences" 682: 677: 356:
2019: John Boswell Prize, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History, American Historical Association, Washington, DC.
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is an American scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender and race, specifically Black
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2008: James D. Woods Teaching Award, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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2018: Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, New York, NY.
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Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife
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2014: Lavender Mentorship Award, LGBTQ Student Association, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
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where he will examine racial practices in relation to swamps and is coediting the forthcoming
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2018: Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, Lambda Literary, New York, NY.
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Gender. Keywords in African American Studies. Eds. Erica Edward and Rodrick Ferguson.
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2017: William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association, New York, NY.
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1999: Kluge Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, New York 1999-2003.
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2006: Fontaine fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
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C. Riley Snorton at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva, March 2024.
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Snorton, C. Riley (2014). "On the Question of "Who's Out in Hip Hop"".
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listed him as one of their "18 Transgender People You Should Know".
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Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University
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Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society
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Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society
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Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low
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Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low
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Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low
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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
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Nobody is Supposed to Know: Sexuality on the Down Low
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No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
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The Flesh of the Matter: A Hortense Spillers Reader.
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Saturation: Race, Art and the Circulation of Value.
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