Britt Rusert's Fugitive Science is a tour de force of scholarly recovery and intellectual reimagining. This beautifully rendered cultural history bravely engages African American critiques of racial science as well as the politics of scientific knowledge these artists, writers and activists deployed toward the goal of liberation. Groundbreaking interdisciplinary scholarship. -Alondra Nelson,author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, ... Read moreand Reconciliation after the Genome Beautifully written and a pleasure to read, Fugitive Science is an ambitious, creative, and deeply researched interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century African Americans' engagements with racial and other sciences of the period. Rusert's notion of 'fugitive science'-the idea that African Americans developed perspectives on science apart from established scientific communities and thus 'on the run,' as it were-is quite compelling and should quickly become one of the vital paradigms of nineteenth-century African American studies. -Robert S. Levine,author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass Show Less