Title: Fugitive science : empiricism and freedom in early African American culture /
Authors: Rusert, Britt,
Year: 2017
Subjects: African Americans Intellectual life; African American intellectuals History; African Americans Civil rights History; Racism United States History; Science Social aspects United States History; Science United States History; Empiricism History; Knowledge, Sociology of History; 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 Intellectual life; United States Race relations History; United States
Abstract: "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.
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.