Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
by
Cristin Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into...