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Author:

Rusert, Britt, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016050848

Title:

Fugitive science : empiricism and freedom in early African American culture / Britt Rusert.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African American intellectuals--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Racism--United States--History--19th century.
Science--History--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--History--History--19th century.
African American intellectuals.
African Americans--Civil rights.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Empiricism.
Intellectual life.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Race relations.
Racism.
Science.
Science--Social aspects.
United States.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

Series:

America and the long 19th century

ISBN:

1479847666
9781479847662
1479885681
9781479885688

OCLC:

(OCoLC)958932393

LCCN:

2016041810

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)