Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

by Joshua Bennett

Book Overview

Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize

A prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.

Throughout US history, Black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons, a subgenre of the human. Being Property Once Myself delves into the literary imagination and ethical concerns that have emerged from this experience. Each chapter tracks a specific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674980301
• ISBN13: 9780674980303
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"