Afro-Dog - Blackness and the Animal Question Boisseron Professor BenedictePaperback / softback
Afro-Dog - Blackness and the Animal Question Boisseron Professor BenedictePaperback / softback The animal-rights organization PETA asked "Are Animals the New Slaves?" in a controversial 2005…
Specifikacia Afro-Dog - Blackness and the Animal Question Boisseron Professor BenedictePaperback / softback
Afro-Dog - Blackness and the Animal Question Boisseron Professor BenedictePaperback / softback
The animal-rights organization PETA asked "Are Animals the New Slaves?" in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Humane Society rescued pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while black residents were neglected, some declared that white America cares more about pets than black people. Does comparing human and animal suffering trivialize black pain, or might the intersections of racialization and animalization shed light on interlinked forms of oppression?In Afro-Dog, B n dicte Boisseron investigates the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and the black Atlantic, exposing a hegemonic system that compulsively links and opposes blackness and animality to measure the value of These are but two recent examples of a centuries-long history in which black life has been pitted against animal life.