Author’s Forum: Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (a conversation with Benedicte Boisseron and Aliyah Khan)

When:
February 21, 2019 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
2019-02-21T17:30:00-05:00
2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00
Where:
Hatcher Library, Room 100
913 S University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
USA

Bénédicte Boisseron (Afro-American and African studies) and Aliyah Khan(English, Afro-American and African studies) discuss Boisseron’s new book Afro-Dog, which investigates the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and the black Atlantic, exposing a hegemonic system that compulsively links and opposes blackness and animality to measure the value of life.

 

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