"Disreputable Women is a wide-ranging, unique, and compelling study of the history of black women and trans or gender-nonconforming people in the sexual economy of San Diego. This is a strong, clear, and brilliantly presented work that will surely be taught widely in graduate and undergraduate classrooms across the country."--Mireille Miller-Young, author of A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography "Represents the very best of new scholarship in the fields of queer and black feminist history: interdisciplinary, evidence-rich, and conceptually sophisticated. Christina Carney uses the innovative developments of both fields to bring the two together: drawing on black feminist theorizations of racialized gender and sexuality, queer challenges to identity norms, close attention to power and difference, and new methods for studying histories of the present."--Christina Hanhardt, author of Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence "An engaging and informative read. Carney's adept and thoughtful analysis of the ways black women created lives and communities for themselves within the context of structural racism and state violence offers important contributions to black studies and black feminist studies, particularly by highlighting how these women enacted resistance."--Christina Baker, author of Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance