Race Matters, Animal Matters
Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930
Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, and James Weldon Johnson alongside slaughterhouse lithographs, hunting photography, and sheep husbandry manuals, Lindgren Johnson argues instead for a critical African American tradition that at pivotal moments reconsiders and recuperates discourses of animality weaponized against both African Americans and animals. Johnson articulates a theo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-35644-8
- EAN: 9781317356448
- Produktnummer: 24969124
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 212 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'782 KB
- Abbildungen: 9 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 9 schwarz-weiße Fotos
Über den Autor
Lindgren Johnson is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, USA.
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