November 30, 2018
Book Excerpt! Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (introduction)
“Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog hones in, acutely and in detail, on the often-unhappy convergence of ‘animal’ and ‘black’ in current and historical thought, deftly dismantling their rhetorical obfuscations while sacrificing neither ‘the animal’ nor ‘the black.’ Instead, she calls for attending to human-animal...