The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History

by Alys Eve Weinbaum

Book Overview

In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary biocapitalism. As a form of racial capitalism that relies on the commodification of the human reproductive body, biocapitalism is dependent upon what Weinbaum calls the slave episteme--the racial logic that drove four centuries of slave breeding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478002840
• ISBN13: 9781478002840
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"