Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)

Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World is a groundbreaking book that challenges the dominant narratives of race, gender, and animality in Western science and philosophy.

Through a critical examination of literary works, art, and oratory, Jackson argues that African diasporic cultural production offers a new understanding of what it means to be human, one that disrupts the racialization of the human/animal distinction and offers alternative frameworks for thought and relationality.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in deconstructing the pernicious legacy of anti-Blackness and imagining a more inclusive and equitable future.