Lindgren Johnson

Race Matters, Animal Matters

Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930

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Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the grand narrative of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Taking an animal studies approach to texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and James Weldon Johnson, among others, Johnson argues instead that this literature, at pivotal moments, reconsiders and recuperates discourses of animality (and often animals themselves) weaponized against African Americans, thus undermining the binaries that produced racial-and animal-injustice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138954540
• ISBN-10: 1138954543
• Artikelnr.: 43680711

Autorenporträt

Lindgren Johnson is Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction. Fugitive Humanism in African America
Chapter 1. Scenes of Slave Breaking and Making in Moses Roper's and
Frederick Douglass' Slave Narratives
Chapter 2. "To Admit All Cattle without Distinction": Reconstructing
Slaughter in the Slaughterhouse Cases and the New Orleans Crescent City
Slaughterhouse
Chapter 3. Strange Fruits: Conjure, Slaughter, and The Politics of
Disembodiment in Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Related Tales
Chapter 4. Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Hunting and Domestication in
Spectacle Lynchings
Chapter 5. Interspecies Welfare and Justice: Animal Welfare and the
Anti-Lynching Movement
Epilogue. Sanctuary and Asylum