Tim Wise discusses racism in some animal rights movements.
Vegans of Color
Many vegan spaces seem to be assumed (consciously or not) to be white by default, with the dialogue within often coming from a place of white privilege. We’re not single-issue here. All oppressions are connected.
The Sistah Vegan Project
The Sistah Vegan Project focuses on how plant-based consumptive lifestyle is affected by factors of race, racisms, sexism, heterosexism, classism, and other social injustices within the lives of black females. Breeze Harper is the editor of “Sistah Vegan” (Lantern Books 2010) and a PhD candidate in critical food geographies at UCD.
Hribal argues persuasively that animal escapes and attacks are deliberate, that the animals are acting with intent, that they are asserting their own desires for freedom.
Intersectionality 'Round the Interwebs from easyvegan.info is a collection of writings from different bloggers on intersectionality. The blog author also writes a lot about intersectionality herself.
The Sexual Politics of Meat and Neither Man nor Beast by Carol Adams.
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory explores a relationship between patriarchal values and meat eating by interweaving the insights of feminism, vegetarianism, animal defense, and literary theory. Neither Man Nor Beast takes Adams’ thought one step further. It represents her collected reflections on animal rights, vegetarianism, and ecofeminism from the often-difficult-to-locate sources in which many originally appeared. More than a book of theory, Neither Man Nor Beast is an enlightened call to action.
An economic and environmental analysis weighing animal agriculture against other forms of environmental destruction.
A historical account of how animal exploitation, eugenics, and western science were used as a model for the Nazi exploitation of humans during the Holocaust. The first part of the book describes the emergence of humans as the master species and their domination of the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. The second part examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times, while the last part of the book profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust.
Americans for Medical Advancement
An organization devoted to educating the public about the dangers to humans of nonhuman animal research and promoting better research methods. There are many readings in their resources and books sections but some are heavily scientific and academic.
Americans for Medical Advancement
An organization devoted to educating the public about the dangers to humans of nonhuman animal research and promoting better research methods. There are many readings in their resources and books sections but some are heavily scientific and academic.
In Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?, varying tactics used on behalf of nonhuman animals are examined in relation to other struggles in (human) social justice movements.
