Contents
Introduction: A Racial History of Animals
Of Domestication and Violence
This Is a Thoroughbred Boy: Exploring the Lives of Slave Children and Animals | Rachael L. Pasierowska
The Double Standard: German Shepherds, Race, and Violence | Silke Hackenesch and Mieke Roscher
Sheep Trouble on Clifton Beach: Sacrificial Sheep Exorcising the Demon of Racism? | Benita de Robillard
Of Menageries and Empires
Llamas, Snakes, and Indigenous Colonial Equivalency in the Andes | Rachel Sarah O’Toole
Disguise Hunting and Indian Otherness in Theodor de Bry’s Brief Narration of What Befell the French in Florida (1591) | Thomas Balfe
Reframing Whiteness in the Zoo: Snowflake the Gorilla in Modern Media | Elizabeth Tavella
Of Prey, Sex, and Gender
The Miseducation of Henrietta Forge: Whiteness and the Equestrian Imagination in C. E. Morgan’s The Sport of Kings | Angela Hofstetter
From Apes to Stags: Black Men, White Women, and the Animals That Code Them in Horror Cinema | Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres
Queer Trouble at the Origin: Steven Cohen’s Cradle of Humankind (2012) | Ruth Lipschitz
#RateASpecies: Reviewing Animal Commodities on the Internet | Soledad Altrudi
Of Food and Kin
Civil Rats and the Human Exceptional: A Vegan-Historical Account of the Rat Extermination Act of 1967 | Thomas Aiello
The Cry of the Wolf: Exposing the Peril of Racism Lurking in the White Sheep Complex | Rajesh K. Reddy
Contributors
Index