Becoming Human - 9781479890040

Becoming HumanMatter and Meaning in an Antiblack World\nAuthor(s): Zakiyyah Iman Jackson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479890040, 978-1479890040\nSynopsis\nWinner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzalda Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association\n Winner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature Association\n Winner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies\n Argues that Blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human\n Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between Blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World 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 L""