Description: Further DetailsTitle: Fugitive ScienceCondition: NewSubtitle: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American CultureISBN-10: 1479885681EAN: 9781479885688ISBN: 9781479885688Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/18/2017Description: Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies AssociationExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Britt Rusert uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of black writers, artists, and performers. Fugitive Science chronicles a little-known story about race and science in America. While the history of scientific racism in the nineteenth century has been well-documented, there was also a counter-movement of African Americans who worked to refute its claims. Far from rejecting science, these figures were careful readers of antebellum science who linked diverse fields—from astronomy to physiology—to both on-the-ground activism and more speculative forms of knowledge creation. Routinely excluded from institutions of scientific learning and training, they transformed cultural spaces like the page, the stage, the parlor, and even the pulpit into laboratories of knowledge and experimentation. From the recovery of neglected figures like Robert Benjamin Lewis, Hosea Easton, and Sarah Mapps Douglass, to new accounts of Martin Delany, Henry Box Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Science makes natural science central to how we understand the origins and development of African American literature and culture. This distinct and pioneering book will spark interest from anyone wishing to learn more on race and society.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 594gAuthor: Britt RusertGenre: HistoryBook Series: America and the Long 19th CenturyTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Fugitive Science
Title: Fugitive Science
Subtitle: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
ISBN-10: 1479885681
EAN: 9781479885688
ISBN: 9781479885688
Release Date: 04/18/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Fugitive Science : Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, American / African American, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Civil Rights, Movements / Empiricism, Modern / 19th Century, History, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Author: Britt Rusert
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science, Science, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Series: America and the Long 19th Century Ser.
Format: Hardcover
