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, two Presa Canarios, a dog and a bitch named Bane and Hera, attacked and mauled Diane Whipple in the hallway of her Pacific Heights apartment in San Francisco, where she lived with her partner, Sharon Smith. The dogs bit her seventy-seven times (according to the forensics count), and the bites to her larynx, combined with the loss of one-third of her blood, caused her death within hours of the sixminute attack. Bane and Hera were originally owned by various proxies for Pelican Bay State Prison inmate Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood whose plan was to become a dog breeder from his cell, where he was serving time for armed robbery and attempted murder. 1 The breeder name was "Dog O'War," co-founded by Schneider and Dale Bretches, author of a 2005 e-book, Dog O'War, which is a memoir, an account of Presa Canario breeding, and a commentary on the San Francisco case (Bretches is also an illustrator and artist who includes "dogs of war" in his drawings). 2 Bane and Hera's caretakers were Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, residents of the same apartment building floor as Whipple and Smith, adoptive parents of Schneider, and lawyers who specialized in bringing lawsuits on behalf of inmates against the California Department of Corrections (CDC) for its inhumane treatment of prisoners. Although this was not a unique event-other dogs have attacked and mauled people resulting in death-it was one that immediately generated an archive, both legal and cultural, marking a traumatic moment in the recent U.S. history of dog-human relating, and it brought attention and notoriety to this little-known breed. The dense textual nexus comprising
In this introduction to the special issue of American Quarterly , “Species/Race/Sex,” Claire Jean Kim and Carla Freccero hold a conversation based on a set of questions about the fields they work in and the interdisciplinary and political challenges to thinking intersectionally about species, race, and sex. They discuss their field formations; the need for interdisciplinary approaches to address the full complexity of categories of identity, being, and belonging; and the challenges and resistances that arise when working across these divides. They also talk about what motivates them to do this work, what work they hope to see in the future, and the diversity and range of the essays included in the volume, which they introduce by briefly describing each. The collection begins with a work of fiction and is divided into sections: “History and Empire,” “Intersections,” and “Becoming,” followed by “Afterword: Moving Ahead.”
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