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Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (America and the Long 19th Century)

Britt Rusert

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Description for Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (America and the Long 19th Century) Paperback. "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DS; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
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 Association Exposes 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 ... Read morescientific 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. 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 Association Exposes 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. Show Less

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Publisher

NYU Press

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2017

Series

America and the Long 19th Century

Condition

New

Weight

28g

Number of Pages

320

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9781479847662

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V9781479847662

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About Britt Rusert

Britt Rusert is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies.

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Britt Rusert's Fugitive Science is a tour de force of scholarly recovery and intellectual reimagining. This beautifully rendered cultural history bravely engages African American critiques of racial science as well as the politics of scientific knowledge these artists, writers and activists deployed toward the goal of liberation. Groundbreaking interdisciplinary scholarship. -Alondra Nelson,author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, ... Read more

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