This essay mines the intersections among contemporary trans* studies, black feminism, and black studies to reexamine Richard Wright’s short story, ‘Man of All Work’ (1961), depicting a black heterosexual man’s efforts to save his home from foreclosure by dressing in his wife’s clothes to find work. Rather than engage these critical traditions in rigid identitarian terms, this essay uses such scholarship to examine how the author’s farcical attempts to dramatize the cultural feminization of black men yields complex theoretical insights as to the impact of anti-black racism on the lived experiences of black people. A key insight from black studies is the tendency of US white supremacy to collapse black gender difference into sameness, thereby excluding black men and women from sexual difference. Highlighting the fungibility of black gender, this essay works these scholarly intersections to examine how the self-conscious exploitation of anti-black assumptions about the body creates the potential for unlikely intraracial solidarities to emerge.

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“但你一点也不像伯莎”：当代（黑人）跨性别研究和理查德赖特的“所有工作的人”

这篇文章挖掘当代跨性别研究、黑人女权主义和黑人研究之间的交叉点，以重新审视理查德赖特的短篇小说“所有工作的人”（1961），描绘了一个黑人异性恋男子通过穿着他的衣服来拯救他的家免于止赎的努力。老婆的衣服找工作。本文并没有以严格的身份认同来使用这些批判传统，而是利用这种学术研究来检验作者将黑人男性文化女性化的滑稽尝试如何产生关于反黑人种族主义对黑人生活经历的影响的复杂理论见解人们。黑人研究的一个关键见解是，美国白人至上倾向于将黑人性别差异瓦解为同一性，从而将黑人男女排除在性别差异之外。突出黑人性别的可替代性，