On the fear of small numbers: A twenty-first-century prolegomenon of the U.S. Black transgender experience

Black Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 57-81

  Page, Enoch H ^a   Richardson, Matt U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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