A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.0Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination …
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"Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific animal figure-…
Introduction: Horse -- Rat -- Cock -- Mule -- Dog -- Shark. "Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from t…
Racism in America: a Reader
by Hall, Stuart, Bennett, Joshua, Appiah, Kwame Anthony, Shelby, Tommie, Gordon-Reed, Annette, Abraham Jack, Anthony, Bald, Vivek, Baradaran, Mehrsa, Blackhawk, Ned, Feetwood, Nicole R., Feimster, Crystal N., Gibran Muhammad, Khalil, Hinton, Elizabeth, Hunter, Tera W., JOHNSON, Walter, Lentz-Smith, Adriane, Lew-Williams, Beth, Morrison, Toni, Muñoz Martinez, Monica, Sturkey, William, White, Augustus A.
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Racism in America has been the subject of serious scholarship for decades. At Harvard University Press, we've had the honor of publishing some of the most influential books on the subject. The excerpts in this volume-culled from works of history, law, sociology, medicine, econom…
Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, 'God and Progress' offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in 19th-century Britain. The volume recovers a twofold process in which the growth of progres…
Exploring the rich relationship between historical thought and religious debate in Victorian culture, God and Progress offers a unique and authoritative account of intellectual change in nineteenth-century Britain. The volume recovers a twofold process in which the growth of pro…