# Zakiyyah Iman Jackson ## Description American scholar whose *Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World* (2020) rethinks the boundary between the human and the animal through Black feminist theory, arguing that antiblackness has structured Western taxonomies of "the human" and of animality alike, and that Black cultural production has long contested those taxonomies. ## Key Tags #black-study #theorist #posthumanism ## Essential Works - [Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World](https://nyupress.org/9781479890386/becoming-human/) (2020) - her central monograph, reworking posthumanist theory through Black feminist critique of race and animality ## Details Trained in African American studies and critical theory; *Becoming Human* won the MLA's William Sanders Scarborough Prize and extends Black feminist critique of humanism into direct engagement with animal studies and posthumanism, arguing that Black being has historically been excluded from — rather than simply oppressed within — Enlightenment categories of both "the human" and "the animal." ### Concepts and Theories - [[The Body]] - *Becoming Human* is centrally concerned with embodiment, animality, and the racialized construction of "the human" - [[Black Studies]] - rethinks the human/animal boundary through Black feminist critique of antiblackness ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - University of Southern California - Department of English ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman. *Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World*. NYU Press, 2020. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%