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Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930 (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture) by Johnson, Lindgren; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930 (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture) about?
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
Who reads Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930 (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Johnson, Lindgren;
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780367358969
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-16
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