“Human liberation and animal liberation are linked, but animal liberation does not automatically lead to Black liberation, nor is the reverse true. Samantha Pergadia brings a range of reading practices and theoretical lenses to explore the ways that metaphors or analogies of race and animality produce multivalent–perhaps even contradictory–discourses that are both oppressive and liberatory. Engaging, thoughtful, and original.”
-- Cynthia A. Young, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, The Ohio State University

“This book represents a major leap forward in thinking about how contributions from the intersection of black studies and animality studies come into conversation with the material circumstances of the animals all around us. I appreciate Samantha Pergadia’s willingness to swing for the fences in her project of outlining a ‘true program of liberation’ made to the measure of the world we share.”
-- Joshua Bennett, author of The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time