Deconstructing Prehumanity: An Enquiry into the Archaeological Creation of a Black Past - Paperback

by Jorge Serrano (Author)

Deconstructing Prehumanity is an investigation into the role of archaeological perception in the construction of race. It explores how social knowledge and disciplinary subjectivity have shaped our organization of the human past and how this organization and its lexicon have fueled racialism.

Author Biography

Jorge Serrano is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Delaware. He has taught at University of Tennessee and Virginia Commonwealth University. Serrano is a graduate of Columbia, Yale, and Temple Universities where he majored in Classics, Archaeology, and African American Studies, respectively. He has a passion for exposing students to the wonders of the many ways the past has been construed. In his own words, he has "studied multiple aspects of the pasts and purposely intersects them."