Title: Fugitive science
Description: "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.
Subjects: Race relations, Sociology of Knowledge, Intellectual life, Civil rights, Racism, Empiricism, Science, African Americans, African American intellectuals, History, Knowledge, sociology of, Science, history, united states, Science, social aspects, United states, intellectual life, African americans, intellectual life, African americans, civil rights, Social aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century