Racism – Page 2 – Corey Lee Wrenn, Ph.D.

The Problem with Milk Not Jails

Dr. Corey WrennAugust 7, 2018January 18, 2019

Food Justice and Prison Abolition The American prison system threatens not only urban communities but extends into rural areas as well. The food justice movement has become increasingly aware of this association and has aligned withContinue reading

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Civilizing Horses and Travellers in Post-Colonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 21, 2018December 7, 2018

Postcolonial Ireland entered the 20th century as a newly minted nation-state hoping to establish itself as a legitimate competitor in the capitalist world system. Having been subjugated under colonial animal agriculture for over fourContinue reading

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Alternative Medicine, Vivisection, and Scientific Racism

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 27, 2018December 1, 2018

As I have grown more interested in alternative healing over the years, I have dutifully hit the scientific journals to verify if particular products are actually evidenced to work. This is necessary given that theContinue reading

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A Vegan Feminist Response to Nonhumans First

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 4, 2017December 1, 2018

Content Warning: This post contains graphic descriptions of violent anti-speciesism protests which involve racism, sexual assault, violence against women, and child abuse. The Logic of Non-Humans First! As intersectionality discourse has gained resonance inContinue reading

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The Thug Kitchen Cookbook and the Problem of Vegan Blackface

Dr. Corey WrennFebruary 27, 2017January 26, 2019

In 2014, it was revealed that the authors of the Thug Kitchen, a best selling cookbook utilizing basic ingredients, colloquial Black English, and gangster tropes, were white identified. To begin, I believe their intentions were good. Similar toContinue reading

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On Moral Relativism and Animal Liberation

Dr. Corey WrennJanuary 14, 2017December 30, 2018

White Veganism Intersectionality is a concept that is often rejected in the Nonhuman Animal movement, a problem that is strategically calamitous. The movement is mostly white-identified, meaning that most leaders and rank-and-file activists fail toContinue reading

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A Month of Vegan Research: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 17, 2016August 31, 2020

The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. This essay has a content warning for discussion of extreme racial violence.Continue reading

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When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 2, 2016September 9, 2018

The white-centrism of vegan advocacy is perhaps best evidenced in its partiality for single-issue campaigns targeting the practices of non-Western cultures. Take, for instance, the 2013 Free From Harm call to action regarding "live sushi." "Live sushi" entailsContinue reading

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The Surprising History of John Harvey Kellogg and His War on “Meat”

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 14, 2016January 18, 2019

But although the sheep goes dumb to the slaughter, do not its [sic] eloquent eyes appeal for mercy? Do not the bleating of the calf, the bellowing of the bull, the cackling of the frightenedContinue reading

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What Black Lives Matter Can Teach White Vegans

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 12, 2016September 9, 2018

Content Warning: Post discusses racism, sexism, and a number of other forms of discrimination, as well as the Nonhuman Animal rights movement's protection of discriminatory attitudes and tactics. This is a story about symbols and solidarity. ItContinue reading

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Dr. Wrenn is Senior Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements at the University of Kent. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology with Colorado State University in 2016. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and co-founded the International Association of Vegan Sociologists in 2020. She serves as Book Review Editor for Society & Animals, Consulting Editor for Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations, and past Editor for The Sociological Quarterly, is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee, and hosts Sociology & Animals Podcast. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021), Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change (forthcoming, Routledge, and Vegan Feminism: History, Theory, Activism (forthcoming, Bloomsbury).