Trans
Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 2016
256 pages
978-1-4008-8323-3 (ISBN)
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Rogers Brubaker is professor of sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Part One: The Trans Moment
1 Transgender, Transracial? 15
"Transgender" and "Transracial" before the Dolezal Affair 17
The Field of Argument 21
"If Jenner, Then Dolezal": The Argument from Similarity 22
Boundary Work: The Argument from Difference 31
2 Categories in Flux 40
Unsettled Identities 41
The Empire of Choice 50
The Policing of Identity Claims 56
The New Objectivism 64
Part Two: Thinking with Trans
3 The Trans of Migration 71
Unidirectional Transgender Trajectories 74
Reconsidering "Transracial" 80
Transracial Trajectories, Past and Present 82
4 The Trans of Between 92
Transgender Betweenness: Oscillation, Recombination, Gradation 94
Racial and Gender Betweenness 101
Recombinatory Racial Betweenness: Classification and Identification 104
Performing Betweenness 108
5 The Trans of Beyond 113
Beyond Gender? 114
Beyond Race? 122
Conclusion 131
Notes 153
Bibliography 183
Index 229
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Part One: The Trans Moment
1 Transgender, Transracial? 15
"Transgender" and "Transracial" before the Dolezal Affair 17
The Field of Argument 21
"If Jenner, Then Dolezal": The Argument from Similarity 22
Boundary Work: The Argument from Difference 31
2 Categories in Flux 40
Unsettled Identities 41
The Empire of Choice 50
The Policing of Identity Claims 56
The New Objectivism 64
Part Two: Thinking with Trans
3 The Trans of Migration 71
Unidirectional Transgender Trajectories 74
Reconsidering "Transracial" 80
Transracial Trajectories, Past and Present 82
4 The Trans of Between 92
Transgender Betweenness: Oscillation, Recombination, Gradation 94
Racial and Gender Betweenness 101
Recombinatory Racial Betweenness: Classification and Identification 104
Performing Betweenness 108
5 The Trans of Beyond 113
Beyond Gender? 114
Beyond Race? 122
Conclusion 131
Notes 153
Bibliography 183
Index 229
