Abstract This review essay explores three recent academic studies situated at the intersection of Black studies and animal studies: Joshua Bennett’s Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question, and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. As these books make clear, wide-ranging possibilities can emerge when one reads Blackness and animals together. Each author finds ways of reexamining the human-animal divide, of calling into question other labels and hierarchies, of seeing subjectivity and vitality and resilience where blankness or death or limit have usually been the standard terms. Their work marks the beginning of what we can expect will be a wave of scholarship offering correctives to past silence and simplifications.

中文翻译：

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“被解开的大链条”

摘要 这篇评论文章探讨了位于黑人研究和动物研究交叉点的三项近期学术研究：约书亚·贝内特的《曾经是我自己的财产：黑暗与人类的终结》、Bénédicte Boisseron 的《非洲狗：黑色与动物问题》和 Zakiyyah Iman Jackson 的成为人类：反黑世界中的物质和意义。正如这些书所阐明的那样，当一个人将黑色和动物一起阅读时，会出现广泛的可能性。每位作者都找到了重新审视人类与动物鸿沟的方法，对其他标签和等级提出质疑，在空白、死亡或限制通常是标准术语的情况下，看到主观性、活力和复原力。