Joshua Bennett: My hope is that Being Property Once Myself can contribute to ongoing conversations about Black social life, what Colin Dayan calls civic death, and our ongoing, collective pursuit of human dignity. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate? His book is Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man. Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
This week’s featured author is Joshua Bennett. In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. “ There is an inextricable bond between black freedom struggle, the study of black letters, and the stewardship of the Earth.” Black thought is environmental thought and Black Studies is, at its core, an ecological critique.
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