Bibliograph

Fugitive science, empiricism and freedom in early African American culture, Britt Rusert

Type

Label

Fugitive science, empiricism and freedom in early African American culture, Britt Rusert

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fugitive science

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Britt Rusert

Series statement

America and the long 19th century

Sub title

empiricism and freedom in early African American culture

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

Table Of Contents

The Banneker Age : Black Afterlives of Early National Science -- Comparative Anatomies : Re-visions of Racial Science -- Experiments in Freedom : Fugitive Science in Transatlantic Performance -- Delany's Comet : Blake, or, The Huts of America and the Science Fictions of Slavery -- Sarah's Cabinet : Fugitive Science in and Beyond the Parlor

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