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A billion black Anthropocenes or none /

No geology is neutral. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, this book examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. The author initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between femi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yusoff, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Series:Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Subjects:
Blacks > Race identity.
Geology > Social aspects.
Black race > History.
Anthropology > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Geology, race, and matter
  • Golden spikes and dubious origins
  • The inhumanities
  • Insurgent geology: a billion black Anthropocenes now
  • Writing a geology for the storm next time
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography.