Toxic Silence - Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston (Hardcover, New edition)

Winner of the 2019 LAMBDA Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies! Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston contributes to a growing body of transgender scholarship. This book examines the patriarchal and heteronormative frames within the black community and larger American society that advances the toxic masculinity which violently castigates and threatens the collective embodiment of black transgender women in the USA. Such scholarship is needed to shed more light on the transphobic violence and murders against this understudied group. Little is known about the societal and cultural issues and concerns affecting black transgender women and how their gender identity is met with systemic, institutional, and interpersonal roadblocks. During a time period in American history defined by Time Magazine as "The Transgender Tipping Point," black transgender women have emerged as social, cultural, and political subjects to advance our understanding of the lives of people who identity as a part of both the black and LGBTQIA communities. In the end, this book calls on the black community and culture to end the toxic silence and act instead as allies who are more accepting and inclusive of differing sexualities and gender identities in an effort to improve the generative power of black solidarity.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	William T. Hoston
Dimensions:	225 x 150mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-5599-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-5599-0
Barcode:	9781433155994

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