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What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society.

Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human breaks open the rancorous debate between Black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment.

Die deutsche Journalistin Rosa-Li Sauer fährt nach Kolumbien, um vor Ort über illegale Adoptionen zu recherchieren und gleichzeitig gute Bekannte zu besuchen. Doch kaum ist sie bei Ralf eingetroffen, der als Büroleiter für eine deutsche Hilfsorganisation arbeitet, muss sie erfahren, dass Ottmar Schmidt, ein Mitarbeiter dieser Organisation, mitsamt seiner zweijährigen Tochter entführt worden ist. Rosa-Li begibt sich auf Spurensuche, recherchiert unter Kolumbiens Killern, Guerilleros und Paramilitärs und stößt auf eine grausame, deutsch-kolumbianische Intrige.

From policy briefs and white papers as Speaker of the Florida House, to court cases and brutal police records as a former prosecutor, reading has always been a central part of Chris Sprowls’ mission to defend American values. This interest has expanded beyond his work and into a personal passion for reading books. Getting to know the authors behind the ideas on the page is one of his favorite pastimes. On Read, White, & Blue, hear fascinating interviews with some of the Speakers’ favorite authors and gain insight into the literary works that have shaped his world view, and sometimes, ...