Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2015· Book chapter
Dangerous Crossings
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Short summary
This book argues that contemporary US disputes over nonwhite cultural practices involving animals reveal how race and species operate as conjoined logics of power, demonstrating a need for a multi-optic approach to domination.
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Key points
- Analyzes three US controversies: live animal markets in Chinatown, Michael Vick's dogfighting conviction, and the Makah tribe's whaling.
- Demonstrates how race and species operate as conjoined logics of power in these disputes.
- Contrasts single optics (cruelty/environmental harm vs. racism/cultural imperialism) with a proposed multi-optic approach.
- Encourages an ethics of avowal among different struggles against domination.
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Abstract
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. 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.
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Field: Geography, Planning and Development
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