Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. The Trans Moment

Chapter 1. Transgender, Transracial?

“Transgender” and “Transracial before the Dolezal Affair

The Field of Argument

“If Jenner, Then Dolezal: The Argument from Similarity

Boundary Work: The Argument from Diference

Chapter 2. Categories in Flux

Unsettled Identities

The Empire of Choice

The Policing of Identity Claims

The New Objectivism

Part Two. Thinking with Trans

Chapter 3. The Trans of Migration

Unidirectional Transgender Trajectories

Reconsidering “Transracial

Transracial Trajectories, Past and Present

Chapter 4. The Trans of Between

Transgender Betweenness: Oscillation, Recombination, Gradation

Racial and Gender Betweenness

Recombinatory Racial Betweenness: Classification and Identification

Performing Betweenness

Chapter 5. The Trans of Beyond

Beyond Gender?

Beyond Race?

Conclusion

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