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No Humans Involved

No Humans Involved

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ISBN10: 1942884761
ISBN13: 9781942884767
Publisher: Delmonico Books
Published: Dec 21 2021
Pages: 188
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.45
Language: English

Artists defy Western conceptions of the human

Published with Hammer Museum.

The term no humans involved emerged shortly after the 1991 beating of Rodney King, when it was discovered that the Los Angeles Police Department was using the term as a shorthand for casework that involved Black and Latino men and sex workers. In 1994, Jamaican scholar and theorist Sylvia Wynter challenged her academic colleagues to consider how they themselves might be contributing to the cultural mindset that gave rise to this exclusionary definition of human. In particular, Wynter highlighted the strong influence the notion of race has on the definition of the human and the social hierarchies and injustices that result from this link.

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