Description
Product ID: | 9781478000662 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise |
Title: | Trans Exploits |
Subtitle: | Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement |
Authors: | Author: Jian Neo Chen |
Page Count: | 200 |
Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance, Ethnic studies, Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism, Ethnic studies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Jian Neo Chen examines how contemporary trans of color artists are tracking and resisting their displacement and social marginalization through new forms of cultural expression, performance, and activism. In Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet Gutiérrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people. |
Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-11-06 |