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Being Property Once Myself

Blackness and the End of Man

Joshua Bennett

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Publication Date: 05/12/2020

224 pages

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Introduction: Horse
1. Rat
2. Cock
3. Mule
4. Dog
5. Shark
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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Watch Joshua Bennett’s conversation with Dr. Imani Perry (Princeton University) about Being Property Once Myself and his poetry collection Owed at a September 2020 online event hosted by Harvard Book Store of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Watch Professor Bennett discuss Being Property Once Myself with Tongo Eisen Martin, Jesse McCarthy, and Simone White at an August 2020 online event hosted by San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore
Read Bennett’s conversation with Black Agenda Report about No Property in Man and the idea of Black Studies as an “ecological critique”
Listen to Bennett discuss Being Property Once Myself on the podcast New Books in African American Studies
On the BBC World Service program The Compass, listen to Bennett discuss the role of poetry in bringing humans and non-human animals closer together—and hear him read his poem, “Self Portrait as Periplaneta Americana”

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Awards & Accolades

Shortlist, 2021 Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society

2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association

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