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Aphro-ism : essays on pop culture, feminism, and black veganism from two sisters

Title
Aphro-ism : essays on pop culture, feminism, and black veganism from two sisters / Aph Ko and Syl Ko.
Author
Ko, Aph
Publication
New York : Lantern Books, 2017.

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Additional Authors
Ko, Syl
Description
xxii, 176 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
  • African American women > Social conditions
  • Feminism
  • Veganism > Social aspects
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Authors' notes -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / by Amie Breeze Harper -- Black lives, black life / by Syl Ko -- Bringing our digital mops home : a call to black folks to stop cleaning up white folks' intellectual messes online / by Aph Ko -- #allvegansrock : the all lives matter hashtag of veganism / by Aph Ko -- By "human," everybody just means "white" / by Syl Ko -- Why confusion is necessary for our activism to evolve / by Aph Ko -- Women, beauty, and nature / by Syl Ko -- Emphasizing similarities does nothing for the oppressed / by Syl Ko -- Addressing racism requires addressing the situation of animals / by Syl Ko -- Why black veganism is more than just being black and vegan / by Syl Ko and Aph Ko -- Seven reasons why labels aren't necessarily the root of oppression / by Aph Ko and Syl Ko -- We've reclaimed blackness : now it's time to reclaim "the animal" / by Syl Ko -- Notes from the border of the human/animal divide : thinking and talking about animal oppression when you're not quite human yourself / by Syl Ko -- Vegans of color and respectability politics : when eurocentric veganism is used to rehabilitate minorities / by Aph Ko -- We can avoid the debate about comparing human and animal oppressions if we simply make the right connections / by Syl Ko -- Why animal liberation requires an epistemological revolution / by Aph Ko -- How social media serves as a digital defibrillator for the "American dream" / by Aph Ko -- Re-valuing the human as a way to re-value the animal / by Syl Ko -- Black veganism revisited / by Syl Ko -- Creating new conceptual architecture : on afrofuturism, animality, and unlearning/rewriting ourselves / by Aph Ko -- Afterword by Carol J. Adams -- Notes -- About the authors -- About the publisher.
Call Number
Sc E 18-8
ISBN
  • 9781590565551
  • 159056555X
LCCN
2017013836
OCLC
992579282
Author
Ko, Aph, author.
Title
Aphro-ism : essays on pop culture, feminism, and black veganism from two sisters / Aph Ko and Syl Ko.
Publisher
New York : Lantern Books, 2017.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Ko, Syl, author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-8
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