joshua bennett being property once myself

Classification: LCC PS173.N (print) | LCC PS173.N4 (ebook) | DDC 810.9/352996073-dc23 LC record available at LC ebook record available at 019040016 for all that persists C on t e n t s INTRODUCTION HORSE 1 1 R AT 18 2 COCK 66 3 MULE 114 4 DOG 140 5 SHARK 169 NOTES 191 ACK NOW LE DGMENTS INDEX 209 205 Being Propert y Once M y self I n t roduc t ion Horse The Negro is America’s metaphor. | Literat ure and race-United States. | American literat ure-A frican American authors-History and criticism. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. Title: Being property once myself : blackness and the end of man / Joshua Bennett.

9780674245464 (EPUB) 9780674245488 (MOBI) 9780674245495 (PDF) The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: Bennett, Joshua (Poet), author. Shark Notes Acknowledgments Index Citation previewīeing propert y once m y self Being Property Once Myself Blackness and the End of Man Joshua Benne t t The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2020 Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First printing Jacket design: Tim Jones Jacket photograph: A cotton sharecropper with a one-horse plow, by Dorothea Lange, Greene County, Georgia, 1937. Table of contents : Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction: Horse 1.

Joshua bennett being property once myself