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.

“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.”

• Introduction: The Question of How to Live1. “God Is No Respecter of Persons”: The Modern Person’s Ancestors from the Ancients to the English Civil Wars2. Subject of/to Judgment: John Locke and God’s Three Persons3. Imposing Personhood: African Enslavement and Indigenous Resistance4. Sovereign Persons, Nonpersons, and Corporate Persons: The United States in the Nineteenth Century5. Questioning Ownership6. Questioning Individuality7. Imagining Life After Personhood  AcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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.

“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.”

• Introduction: The Question of How to Live1. “God Is No Respecter of Persons”: The Modern Person’s Ancestors from the Ancients to the English Civil Wars2. Subject of/to Judgment: John Locke and God’s Three Persons3. Imposing Personhood: African Enslavement and Indigenous Resistance4. Sovereign Persons, Nonpersons, and Corporate Persons: The United States in the Nineteenth Century5. Questioning Ownership6. Questioning Individuality7. Imagining Life After Personhood  AcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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.

“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.”

• Introduction: The Question of How to Live1. “God Is No Respecter of Persons”: The Modern Person’s Ancestors from the Ancients to the English Civil Wars2. Subject of/to Judgment: John Locke and God’s Three Persons3. Imposing Personhood: African Enslavement and Indigenous Resistance4. Sovereign Persons, Nonpersons, and Corporate Persons: The United States in the Nineteenth Century5. Questioning Ownership6. Questioning Individuality7. Imagining Life After Personhood  AcknowledgmentsNotesWorks CitedIndex