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020 _a9781849353977
_q(paperback)
020 _z9781849353984
_q(ebook)
035 _p14729
040 _cAE-ShKH
050 1 4 _aHM671
_b.G863 2020
100 1 _aGumbs, Alexis Pauline,
_eauthor.
_916145
245 1 0 _aUndrowned :
_bblack feminist lessons from marine mammals /
_cAlexis Pauline Gumbs.
260 _aChico :
_bAK Press,
_c2020.
300 _a174 p. ;
_c21 cm.
490 0 _aEmergent strategy series
520 _a"Undrowned is a book-length meditation for the entire human species, based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. Alexis Pauline Gumbs has spent hundreds of hours watching our aquatic cousins. She has found them to be queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions humans have imposed on the ocean. Employing a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility, naturalist observation, and Black feminist insights, she translates their submerged wisdom to reveal what they might teach us. The result is a powerful work of creative nonfiction that produces not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wonder and questioning"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aSocial justice.
_916146
650 0 _aWomen, Black.
_916147
650 0 _aMarine mammals.
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999 _c5442
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