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| | Society&Animal Forum - Society & Animals Journal |
 | | Dogs can "give" their lives to science, or they can be killed when no longer "employable" (for example, there are a large number of surplus greyhound racing dogs killed each year). |
 | | Turning to race, historically, people of color (especially Africans) have been situated by Westerners as lower on the chain of being and thus in closer evolutionary and behavioral proximity to nonhuman animals (especially the great apes). |
 | | Adapted from "Le Pratique Sauvage: Race, Place and the Human-Animal Divide," by Elder, Wolch, and Emel in Wolch and Emel (Eds.), Animal Geographies: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands (1998, London: Verso). |
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