Trans and White Trash

An Ethnography of Trans People in the Deep South

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ID3029467
AuthorsErnesto Capello (0000-0002-8498-5155, Savannah College of Art and Design, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume47
Issue1
Pages69-84
Publication date2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/anhu.12362
OpenAlexW3214532538
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited27

In this article, I use queer ethnographic and autoethnographic methods to tell a story of how white trash trans people in the Deep South imagine futures amid a haunted colonial landscape. In conversation with feminist and decolonial theoretical frameworks of haunting and potential history, I show that trauma narratives haunt trans people in Louisiana and that trans trauma narratives are an artifact of settler colonialism. In contrast, I situate stories of trans people in the Deep South as multifaceted radical potential histories

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Artifact (error · Autoethnography · Colonialism · Conversation · Ethnography · Futures contract · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · White (mutation · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Communication · Gender Studies · History · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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