Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters

Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Authors' Notes
	Aph Ko
	Syl Ko
Foreword
1: Black Lives, Black Life
2: Bringing Our Digital Mops Home
3: #AllVegansRock
4: By “Human,” Everybody Just Means “White”
5: Why Confusion Is Necessary for Our Activism to Evolve
6: Women, Beauty, and Nature
7: Emphasizing Similarities Does Nothing for the Oppressed
8: Addressing Racism Requires Addressing the Situation of Animals
9: Why Black Veganism Is More than Just Being Black and Vegan
	1. Black Vegans
	2. Black Veganism
	3. Advantages
	4. Conclusion
10: Seven Reasons Why Labels Aren't Necessarily the Root of Oppression
	1. Using Labels to Define Ourselves Isn't the Problem
	2. It's Misguided to Assume that People Wishing to Mark Their Group as Different Is Necessarily “Divisive”
	3. We're So Tired of People Saying Race Isn't Real Just Because It Isn't Biologically or Materially “Real”
	4. Emphasizing Similarities Won't Help the Oppressed
	5. To Tackle Systems of Oppression, Your Activism Must Be Guided by Your Social Location in the System
	6. Pretending Racial Terms Don't Exist Causes More Harm than Good
	7. Being “Positive” Won't Change Systems of Oppression
11: We've Reclaimed Blackness Now It's Time to Reclaim “The Animal”
	From the Routine Perspective of Racism
	From the Primary, Lived Perspective of Racism
	OK, but What Does All of this Mean, Really?
12: Notes from the Border of the Human–Animal Divide
13: Vegans of Color and Respectability Politics
	Eurocentric Veganism Is Framed as a Therapeutic Corrective to Racism
14: We Can Avoid the Debate about Comparing Human and Animal Oppressions, if We Simply Make the Right Connections
15: Why Animal Liberation Requires an Epistemological Revolution
	A Eurocentric GPS
	When White People Become Racialized/Animalized
	Exploring the Subhuman Territory and Abandoning the Eurocentric Map
16: How Social Media Serves as a Digital Defibrillator for “the American Dream”
	From Poverty to Hollow Fame: Technologized Sharecropping
	Mark Zuckerberg's Tools Will Never Dismantle White Supremacy
17: Revaluing the Human as a Way to Revalue the Animal
	Introduction: How Do We Decolonize?
	Starting Assumption
	The Slogan as a Response to Speciesism
	Freeing the Terms of the Binary
	Conclusion
18: Black Veganism Revisited
19: Creating New Conceptual Architecture
Afterword
	1. The Importance of Critical Theory
	2. What Does Critical Theory Ask of Us?
	3. Multiple Audiences for Aphro-ism
	4. The Challenge of Our Time
Acknowledgments
Notes
	Authors' Note
	1. Black Lives, Black Life
	2. Bringing Our Digital Mops Home
	3. #AllVegansRock
	4. By “Human,” Everybody Just Means “White”
	5. Why Confusion Is Necessary for Our Activism to Evolve
	7. Emphasizing Similarities Does Nothing for the Oppressed
	8. Addressing Racism Requires Addressing the Situation of Animals
	9. Why Black Veganism Is More than Just Being Black and Vegan
	10. Seven Reasons Why Labels Aren't Necessarily the Root of Oppression
	11. We've Reclaimed Blackness: Now It's Time to Reclaim “The Animal”
	12. Notes from the Border of the Human–Animal Divide
	13. Vegans of Color and Respectability Politics
	14. We Can Avoid the Debate about Comparing Human and Animal Oppressions, if We Simply Make the Right Connections
	15. Why Animal Liberation Requires an Epistemological Revolution
	16. How Social Media Serves as a Digital Defibrillator for “the American Dream”
	17. Revaluing the Human as a Way to Revalue the Animal
	18. Black Veganism Revisited
	19. Creating New Conceptual Architecture
	Afterword: Carol J. Adams
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