Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities

by Rogers Brubaker

Book Overview

How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and race

In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691172358
• ISBN13: 9780691172354
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"