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When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet – Bayo Akomolafe

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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Race and Its Contributions to the Making of the Planet

Bodies are constantly being racialized by forces that are biological and cultural simultaneously or biocultural. A single virus can crack open political economies, rearranging food systems to privilege some above others. Think of how the Ebola phenomenon reinforced stereotypes about dirty Africans and their diseased bodies. Race is not an exclusively human matter. It is post-human, more than human.

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