Sharon P. Holland is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor in American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, and The Erotic Life of Racism. She is currently working on a book that examines philosophical distinctions between human and animals in order to ask about the relationship of “blackness” to notions of animality.
