Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)

Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)

Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human

Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western …

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