Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters

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Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Authors' Notes Aph Ko Syl Ko Foreword 1: Black Lives, Black Life 2: Bringing Our Digital Mops Home 3: #AllVegansRock 4: By “Human,” Everybody Just Means “White” 5: Why Confusion Is Necessary for Our Activism to Evolve 6: Women, Beauty, and Nature 7: Emphasizing Similarities Does Nothing for the Oppressed 8: Addressing Racism Requires Addressing the Situation of Animals 9: Why Black Veganism Is More than Just Being Black and Vegan 1. Black Vegans 2. Black Veganism 3. Advantages 4. Conclusion 10: Seven Reasons Why Labels Aren't Necessarily the Root of Oppression 1. Using Labels to Define Ourselves Isn't the Problem 2. It's Misguided to Assume that People Wishing to Mark Their Group as Different Is Necessarily “Divisive” 3. We're So Tired of People Saying Race Isn't Real Just Because It Isn't Biologically or Materially “Real” 4. Emphasizing Similarities Won't Help the Oppressed 5. To Tackle Systems of Oppression, Your Activism Must Be Guided by Your Social Location in the System 6. Pretending Racial Terms Don't Exist Causes More Harm than Good 7. Being “Positive” Won't Change Systems of Oppression 11: We've Reclaimed Blackness Now It's Time to Reclaim “The Animal” From the Routine Perspective of Racism From the Primary, Lived Perspective of Racism OK, but What Does All of this Mean, Really? 12: Notes from the Border of the Human–Animal Divide 13: Vegans of Color and Respectability Politics Eurocentric Veganism Is Framed as a Therapeutic Corrective to Racism 14: We Can Avoid the Debate about Comparing Human and Animal Oppressions, if We Simply Make the Right Connections 15: Why Animal Liberation Requires an Epistemological Revolution A Eurocentric GPS When White People Become Racialized/Animalized Exploring the Subhuman Territory and Abandoning the Eurocentric Map 16: How Social Media Serves as a Digital Defibrillator for “the American Dream” From Poverty to Hollow Fame: Technologized Sharecropping Mark Zuckerberg's Tools Will Never Dismantle White Supremacy 17: Revaluing the Human as a Way to Revalue the Animal Introduction: How Do We Decolonize? Starting Assumption The Slogan as a Response to Speciesism Freeing the Terms of the Binary Conclusion 18: Black Veganism Revisited 19: Creating New Conceptual Architecture Afterword 1. The Importance of Critical Theory 2. What Does Critical Theory Ask of Us? 3. Multiple Audiences for Aphro-ism 4. The Challenge of Our Time Acknowledgments Notes Authors' Note 1. Black Lives, Black Life 2. Bringing Our Digital Mops Home 3. #AllVegansRock 4. By “Human,” Everybody Just Means “White” 5. Why Confusion Is Necessary for Our Activism to Evolve 7. Emphasizing Similarities Does Nothing for the Oppressed 8. Addressing Racism Requires Addressing the Situation of Animals 9. Why Black Veganism Is More than Just Being Black and Vegan 10. Seven Reasons Why Labels Aren't Necessarily the Root of Oppression 11. We've Reclaimed Blackness: Now It's Time to Reclaim “The Animal” 12. Notes from the Border of the Human–Animal Divide 13. Vegans of Color and Respectability Politics 14. We Can Avoid the Debate about Comparing Human and Animal Oppressions, if We Simply Make the Right Connections 15. Why Animal Liberation Requires an Epistemological Revolution 16. How Social Media Serves as a Digital Defibrillator for “the American Dream” 17. Revaluing the Human as a Way to Revalue the Animal 18. Black Veganism Revisited 19. Creating New Conceptual Architecture Afterword: Carol J. Adams About the Author About the Publisher