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Fugitive science : empiricism and freedom in early African American culture

Rusert, Britt, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Subject: African Americans Intellectual life 19th century. / African American intellectuals History 19th century. / African Americans Civil rights History 19th century. / Racism United States History 19th century. / Science Social aspects United States History 19th century. / Science United States History 19th century. / Empiricism History 19th century. / Knowledge, Sociology of History 19th century. / United States Intellectual life 19th century. / United States Race relations History 19th century.
• ISBN: 9781479885688, 9781479847662

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E185.89.I56 B78 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE