The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing anti-racism in its observation of the animal-race intersection as it questions both why this intersection exists and how can we challenge it moving forward. It takes an interdisciplinary approach in examining those questions, ...
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The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing anti-racism in its observation of the animal-race intersection as it questions both why this intersection exists and how can we challenge it moving forward. It takes an interdisciplinary approach in examining those questions, moving across subjects including art history, film studies, American history, and digital media analysis. Our interpretation of animals has, for centuries, been fundamental in the development of Western race thinking. This collection of essays looks at how this perspective contributes to the construction of racial discrimination, upholding ways to read the animal in our culture as a means for working to dismantle this conception.
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