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“With subtlety and acumen, McWhorter has written a powerful critique of the concept of personhood. Never content with a broadside, McWhorter offers a genealogical history of the concept, showing the important role it has played in isolating us from one another. In addition, she points the way to thinking about ourselves otherwise, creating routes to solidarity. Unbecoming Persons will change the way we think about who and where we are and how we got here.” -- Todd May, Warren Wilson College “McWhorter is without doubt the most masterful genealogist and visionary experimenter in the tradition of Foucault writing today. Unbecoming Persons is an experience book that shakes loose seemingly obvious truths about what it means to be a person and makes it difficult to go on being one. For anyone wanting to live otherwise, McWhorter shows a way.” -- Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Unbecoming Persons is an urgent, beautifully argued, and movingly personal call for letting go of being persons. McWhorter presents an ethos for living in a world gone wrong because it has been made wrong. She shows us how the world can be unmade, remade, and made otherwise if we are willing to get free of personhood. This book is diagnostic, moving, and persuasive, which is to say, it is deeply philosophical.” -- Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount University

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Ladelle McWhorter is the Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Emerita at the University of Richmond. Her books include Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy.

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