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Zakkiyah Iman Jackson, "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" (NYU Press, 2020)
In a world where black(ened) flesh, particularly feminine flesh, is considered the ontological zero of humanness, what interventions and complications are available from art and speculative fiction of the African diaspora? On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Dr. Zakkiyah Iman Jackson about the imaginative interventions of African cultural production into the racial logics of the so-called “Enlightenment,” past and present. Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy…
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