The Racial Cage

Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M'charek, Anne Pollock

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781452972732
• Year: 2025

The potential of biohumanities as a foundation for antiracist critique of the human

The Racial Cage delivers a spirited and polyvocal analysis of how race is materialized through both metaphorical and literal cages. It theorizes the cage, fence, dragnet, and tube as material–semiotic sites for racialization and for iteratively redefining the human–animal boundary. A collaborative conversation across continents, this work examines the racial cage as an important part of the practice of social division and bodily containment. The deeply considered result is an empirical and theoretical approach to biohumanities that productively interrogates its linkages to critical theories of race and racism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series List
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Keepers and the Kept: Metabolism Cages in Racial Formations
• 2. Uncaging Race: A Proposal for Curiosity and Care for Wild Objects
• 3. Caging, Staging: Race and the Question of Human Life in Covid Times
• 4. Longed for Still: Antiracism, Uncaging, and Modes of Breathing Together
• Coda
• Acknowledgments
• Author Biographies