Dangerous Crossings
Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age
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- Author: Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine
- Date Published: April 2015
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- isbn: 9781107622937
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Dangerous Crossings offers an interpretation of the impassioned disputes that have arisen in the contemporary United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of nonwhite peoples. It examines three controversies: the battle over the “cruelty” of the live animal markets in San Francisco's Chinatown, the uproar over the conviction of NFL superstar Michael Vick on dogfighting charges, and the firestorm over the Makah tribe's decision to resume whaling in the Pacific Northwest after a hiatus of more than seventy years. Claire Jean Kim shows that each dispute demonstrates how race and species operate as conjoined logics, or mutually constitutive taxonomies of power, to create the animal, the Chinese immigrant, the black man, and the “Indian” in the white imagination. Analyzing each case as a conflict between single optics (the optic of cruelty and environmental harm vs. the optic of racism and cultural imperialism), she argues for a multi-optic approach that takes different forms of domination seriously, and thus encourages an ethics of avowal among different struggles.
Read more- Addresses the clash between claims of racial justice and claims of animal/ecological justice in the real world
- Advances a new way of theorizing the relationship between race and species
- Uses comparative ethnic studies - compares three different racialized groups (Chinese immigrants, blacks, and the Makah tribe)
Awards
- Winner, 2016 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section, American Political Science Association
Reviews & endorsements
"In this truly groundbreaking work, Claire Jean Kim argues for "an ethic of mutual avowal" to resolve conflicts between race, culture, and species. In order to begin to disentangle ourselves from the structures that create and reinforce intersecting injustices, we need to see beyond the limiting optics of cruelty and disposability. Dangerous Crossings broadens our vision and points toward ways to ethically navigate multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-species contact zones."
Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University, and author of Ethics and AnimalsSee more reviews"In a major contribution to the field of animal studies, Claire Kim’s Dangerous Crossings expands our understanding of how nonhuman animals can be enrolled in the contested urban politics of race and ethnicity. Kim’s book charts entirely new territory, showing through case studies how controversial animal practices can become intensely racialized, doing harm to both marginalized communities and the animals themselves. She also offers us a practical politics of recognition that insists on cultural sensitivity while keeping the welfare of animals clearly in view."
Jennifer Wolch, Dean, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley"In this brilliant, original, and infinitely generative book, Claire Jean Kim shows how patterns of thought rounded in the human/animal binary shape ideas, assumptions, and attitudes about race. We will not be able to live better together unless we learn to think better together, and, fortunately, the fascinating case studies and sustained and sophisticated arguments in Dangerous Crossings teach us how this can be done."
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- Date Published: April 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107622937
- length: 356 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 155 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus. 4 maps 3 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Taxonomies of Power:
1. Impassioned disputes
2. Animals, nature, and the races of man
Part II. The Battle over Live Animal Markets in San Francisco's Chinatown:
3. The optic of cruelty: challenging the markets
4. The optic of racism: mobilizing the Chinese community
5. The optic of ecological harm: protecting 'nature' in a neoliberal age
6. Vision/critique/avowal
Part III. Other Disputes:
7. Makah whaling and the (non)ecological Indian
8. Michael Vick, dogfighting, and the parable of black recalcitrance
Part IV. Conclusion:
9. We are all animals/we are not animals.
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