Animals and Race (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611864458)

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. Too often, as B駭馘icte Boisseron has indicated, this intersection typically appears in the form of animal activists instrumentalizing racial discrimination as a vehicle to approach animal rights. But why does this intersection exist, and, perhaps more importantly, how can we challenge it moving forward? This volume examines those two critical questions, taking an interdisciplinary approach in 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, prioritizing ways to read the animal in our culture as a means for working to dismantle this conception.

Author: Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres
ISBN-10: 1611864453
ISBN-13: 9781611864458
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2023
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.92h x 6.93w x 0.55d