Becoming Human av Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

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<p><b><i>Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzald¿a Book Prize, given by the National Women''s Studies Association</i></b><br/><b><i>Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association</i></b><br/><b><i>Winner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies</i></b><br/><b>Argues that B</b><b>lackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human</b><br/>Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between Blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, <i>Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World</i> breaks open the rancorous debate between black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlighte