Fugitive science: empiricism and freedom in early African American culture

"Fugitive Science excavates this story, uncovering the dynamic scientific engagements and experiments of African American writers, performers, and other cultural producers who mobilized natural science and produced alternative knowledges in the quest for and name of freedom. Literary and cultur...

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Main Author: Rusert, Britt (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York New York University Press 2017
Series:America and the long 19th century
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Summary:"Fugitive Science excavates this story, uncovering the dynamic scientific engagements and experiments of African American writers, performers, and other cultural producers who mobilized natural science and produced alternative knowledges in the quest for and name of freedom. Literary and cultural critics have a particularly important role to play in uncovering the history of fugitive science since these engagements and experiments often happened, not in the laboratory or the university, but in print, on stage, in the garden, church, parlor, and in other cultural spaces and productions. Routinely excluded from the official spaces of scientific learning and training, black cultural actors transformed the spaces of the everyday into laboratories of knowledge and experimentation"...Introduction
Item Description:"Also available as an ebook"...Title page verso. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xiv, 293 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781479885688
9781479847662