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Dangerous crossings : race, species, and nature in a multicultural age /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Claire Jean (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Animal welfare > United States.
Human-animal relationships > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Animal welfare.
Human-animal relationships.
Race relations.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Taxonomies of power
  • Impassioned disputes
  • Animals, nature, and the races of man
  • Part II. The battle over live animal markets in San Francisco's Chinatown
  • The optic of cruelty: challenging the markets
  • The optic of racism: mobilizing the Chinese community
  • The optic of ecological harm: protecting "nature" in a neoliberal age
  • Vision/critique/avowal
  • Part III. Other disputes
  • Makah whaling and the (non) ecological Indian
  • Michael Vick, dogfighting, and the parable of Black recalcitrance
  • Part IV. Conclusion
  • We are all animals/we are not animals.