Mailing addresses can be requested from the prize committee members directly and questions can be addressed to the CLGBTH, Committee: Please ensure that all materials are sent to all members of the prize committee. Emailed submissions must be sent as one PDF file by 11:59pm (Pacific time), 5 October 2022. Hard copies must be postmarked by 11:59pm (Pacific time), 5 October 2022. Note that books that will be published after October 5, but before December 31, 2022, will be accepted for submission in page proofs. Work may be submitted in hard copy and/or in PDF form by email. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH) will award the John Boswell Prize for an outstanding book on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history published in English in 2021 or 2022. Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of 'cross dressing' and canonical black literary works that express black men's access to the 'female within,' Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don't Cry out of narrative convenience. Marion Sims, the 'father of American gynecology,' to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible.

In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.ĭrawing on a deep and varied archive of materials-early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films-Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives-ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. The story of Christine Jorgensen, America's first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018

Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018

Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton