{"product_id":"afrodog-9780231186643","title":"AfroDog","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBénédicte 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 life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDazzling in its reach and groundbreaking in its methodology, \u003ci\u003eAfro-Dog\u003c\/i\u003e redraws the contours of intellectual inquiry with dogs at the lead. Boisseron aims to rethink the hyper-legality of racism and the practice of inequality in ways that are radical and far-reaching. -- Colin Dayan, author of \u003ci\u003eWith Dogs at the Edge of Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBénédicte Boisseron’s \u003ci\u003eAfro-Dog\u003c\/i\u003e hones in, acutely and in detail, on the often-unhappy convergence of 'animal' and 'black' in current and historical thought, deftly dismantling their rhetorical obfuscations while sacrificing neither 'the animal' nor 'the black.' Instead, she calls for attending to human-animal encounters through the lens of black and animal defiance, a kind of subversive interspecies alliance that could empower both. Brilliantly enlisting theoretical and critical voices in critical race studies, animal studies, Afropessimism, ecofeminism, and more, Boisseron brings a crucial Black Alantic and diasporic perspective to bear on blackness and the question of the animal to show, \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003ethat blackness and animality are comparable, but that black people and animals have been and are historically and concretely connected—most often in the form of 'man' and 'dog.' -- Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAfro-Dog\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBoisseron brilliantly demonstrates how the relationship between race and personhood has been missing entirely from the current human\/animal rights debate, resulting in the argument that animals constitute the new 'slaves.' In doing so she offers a long overdue exploration of the larger and more extended links in American and French culture where blackness and animality have become almost interchangeable in popular discourse. -- Sandra Gunning, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfro-Dog\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely effort to tackle the fraught relations between posthumanism and postcolonialism and between animal studies and African American studies. Inflected by continental philosophy, Boisseron’s readings follow a historical trail of dogs from the Middle Passage to the Ferguson unrest in order to theorize a legacy of connections between racism and speciesism, but without posing a false analogy between the two. Especially insightful and important are her arguments about the potential dangers of intersectional analyses which 'risk reproducing what they mean to reject.' -- Kari Weil, author of \u003ci\u003eThinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfro-Dog\u003c\/i\u003e is an amazing book! The animal is not 'the new black'; animals are not the new slaves; and animal studies is not heir to the postcolonial turn. Instead, racialization, specifically New World blackness, is now present in all things animal. Whether as large dogs imported to the Americas to attack indigenous and African rebels or their repressive use in Standing Rock and Ferguson, Bénédicte Boisseron\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly explores dogs as instrumental accessories in defining human essence as white, impelling readers to consider the fundamental relationship between challenging speciesism and transcending colonialism. A must-read for anyone interested in the study of animals, enslavement, and race. -- Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003eBoisseron documents and elaborates on the 'animalization' of blacks and the 'blackification' of animals, the two having often been treated the same by Euro-americans and in their laws....Recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging, synthetic, and quick read on the importance of understanding the flaws of privilege in the making of activist engagements. As such, it should be read by scholars of Atlantic slavery, racial identity, and the animal liberation movement. * H-Florida *\u003cbr\u003eBoisseron shows the interconnectedness of Blackness and the animal, both through how systems of oppression persistently associate Blackness and animality, and through how Caribbean and other non-European cultures relate in less controlling, less calcified ways to animals. * Environmental Humanities *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Blackness Without Analog\u003cbr\u003e1. Is the Animal the New Black?\u003cbr\u003e2. Blacks and Dogs in the Americas\u003cbr\u003e3. The Commensal Dog in a Creole Context\u003cbr\u003e4. Dog Ownership in the Diaspora\u003cbr\u003e5. The Naked Truth About Cats and Blacks\u003cbr\u003eCoda\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51455971164503,"sku":"9780231186643","price":83.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231186643.jpg?v=1755033260","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afrodog-9780231186643","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}