Connections Between Transness and Blackness on Riley Snorton's Text

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Main argument or question being raised by the author/scholar in the text
Riley Snorton investigates the connection between transness and blackness in cross-gendered escape modes, that is, from enslavement. The author describes black gender nonconformity narratives that link theft and cross-dressing and assesses fugitivity and fungibility in relation to the discussed above. Snorton has concentrated on Mary Jones instances. The first example is the black sex worker (cross-dressing) who was born free. The second example entails Mary Anne Waters. She showed up in the press after being detained as a “cross-dressing” call girl. Finally, the third example is about Ellen and William Craft, who masqueraded themselves as William Craft (a servant) and William Johnson (Ellen Craft), respectively, to escape or shun slavery. As the Blacks, a minority group received fungible and ungendered experiences; they could refashion their gender-based expressions to develop conditions for evading slavery (Snorton, 2017).
The intervention that the scholar is aiming to make
The brilliant scholar Snorton offers meaningful context on the relationship between blackness and transness as unique social valuation categories. The author aims to clarify how transness and blackness interconnect in the United States (U.S.) and claims that it is increasingly typical and systematically essential to acknowledge black and trans movements currently. Moreover, the article seeks to understand whatever it means to have a body, which has been prepared into a grammar for entire words of sense through sex orientation and race. Although it is not a traditional monograph, Snorton’s masterpiece tests the comprehension of power, independent bodily sovereignty, and sexuality as disciplines by portraying transgender co...