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 cultural crit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2017]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479885688 1479885681 9781479847662 1479847666 |