Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question

Bénédicte Boisseron 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. By positioning blackness as a focus of animal inquiry, Afro-Dog opens new possibilities for animal studies and black studies to think side by side.