Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

Joshua Bennett

224 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction poetry race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves...

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