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Fugitive Science

760 views · Published 10 January 2018 · 51:47 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

In what's been hailed as a “tour de force of scholarly recovery,” Britt Rusert reveals in 'Fugitive Science' a fascinating if little-known intersection of art and science in 19th-century America, when African-American writers and poets, performers, and visual artists sought to rebut the era's claims of scientific racism. Excluded from the institutions of science, Rusert demonstrates how, for these artists and intellectuals, cultural spaces from books to stages became sites of experimentation and refutation.

This program is presented in partnership with Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago.

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