
Toxic Silence
Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston
William T. Hoston(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 14. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-4331-5514-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-5514-7 (9781433155147)
DOI
10.3726/b13350
Schweitzer Classification
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Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston
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Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston
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Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence against Black Transgender Women in Houston
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William T. Hoston, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He is the author or editor of three academic books: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity: Critical Readings about the Black Experience in Trump's America (2018); Race and the Black Male Subculture: The Lives of Toby Waller (2016); and Black Masculinity in the Obama Era: Outliers of Society (2014).