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The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery - Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History (Hardcover)
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The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery - Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History (Hardcover)
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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 in the Americas and Caribbean. Weinbaum outlines how the
slave episteme shapes the practice of reproduction today,
especially through use of biotechnology and surrogacy. Engaging
with a broad set of texts, from Toni Morrison's Beloved and Octavia
Butler's dystopian speculative fiction to black Marxism, histories
of slavery, and legal cases involving surrogacy, Weinbaum shows how
black feminist contributions from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s
constitute a powerful philosophy of history-one that provides the
means through which to understand how reproductive slavery haunts
the present.
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