Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

Brigitte Fielder is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of&nbsp;Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America&nbsp;(Duke University Press, 2020) and co-editor of&nbsp;Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print&nbsp;(University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).

Brigitte Fielder

Break the Great Chain of Being: On “Becoming Human” and “Being Property Once Myself”

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

Brigitte Fielder is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of&nbsp;Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America&nbsp;(Duke University Press, 2020) and co-editor of&nbsp;Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print&nbsp;(University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).