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241 INDEX A&P Food Stores, 45, 47, 209–210n13; antitrust suit against, 51 ABC or abecedarium, 4–6, 12–14, 17, 205, 208n9 L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (Boutang and Parnet), 5 African Americans, 180; and constitutional law, 187–195, 225n15; in Mississippi Chicken (Fiege), 150–151; in My Year of Meats (Ozeki), 148–149; as processing workers, 44, 148–151, 217n11; and race films, 183–186, 197, 224nn7–10, 225nn12,13; and slavery, 178–179, 181–182, 185–188, 225n11; and stereotype of black chicken thief, 178–190, 196–197, 224nn3,4, 225n11; and stereotype of black watermelon thief, 179–181, 183; and stereotype of dancing donkey, 180, 180, 182–183, 196; and stereotype of male sexuality, 178–180, 180, 183, 186, 196–197, 224n2; and stereotypes of food, 180–182, 180, 183, 185, 196, 226n34. See also Obama, Barack; names of other African Americans age/aging, 10, 11, 14, 17, 39, 139, 208n10 agnotology, 22 Agrarians, 7–8 agrarian studies, 10–11 agribusiness, 8, 10, 109, 144. See also globalization ; poultry industry agricultural studies, manifesto for, 6–12 “Ain’t nobody here but us chickens!” (sound recording), 224n3 Altman, Robert, 65 American Breeder’s Association, 87, 191 American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 100 American Poultry Association, 105, 124 American Poultry Journal, 42–43 American Standard of Perfection, 60, 212n5 Anderson, Sherwood, 16, 87–90, 91, 93–96, 215n16, 224n9 Animals in Motion (Muybridge), 45 antibiotics, 114, 120, 147, 188 Appel, Toby A., 84 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 165, 226n33 Aristarkhova, Irina, 222n13 Aristotle, 82 Arkansas Agriculturalist, 50 Army, U.S., 42–44, 103 art, 11; and chicken culture, 53, 60, 65–66, 70, 73, 212–213n12; and Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (Vanmechelen), 16–17, 156–161, 157, 166–167, 172, 175–176, 213n16, 221nn1,3, 222n13; and “Gallus gallus bankiva (2000)” (Vanmechelen), 161–164, 162, 167, 221nn5,6, 222n13; and “Poultry Suite” (Pagliuso), 65–66, 65, 66, 73 Asiatics, 54, 55 Assured Food Standards (AFS), 32, 208–209n7 augury, 6, 19–33, 204; and Chicken World (Smith), 22–26, 23, 24, 25; and “Death of the Last White Male, The” (Ozeki), 29–31; and egg stamps, 32–33, 208n7; and inauguration, 178, 197; and “Inspired Chicken Motel, The” (Bradbury), 27–29; and Sander, 71, 213n14 autism, 93, 215n23 avian flu, 12, 16, 30–32, 97–103, 109–113, 116, 118, 166, 209n8 Baker, George, 212–213nn12,15 Baker, Robert, 108 Bakewell, Robert, 60 Bantams, 2–3, 61, 136; Bantam Cochins, 66–69; Polish, 193; Sebrights, 12, 65, 169 Barbato, Guy, 52 Italicized page numbers refer to figures. Barnum, P. T., 59 Basaglia, Franco, 75 Basic Chicken Guide for the Small Flock Owner, A (Jones), 3–4, 207n4 Bateson, Gregory, 96, 216n27 Bateson, William, 87 beauty contests, 48–50, 49, 211n30 Beck, Ulrich, 20, 22, 99, 165–166, 175, 208nn2–4, 222n15 becoming, 14, 17, 208n10 Bellairs, Ruth, 92 Belshe, Robert, 115–116 Benjamin, Walter, 70–72, 213n14 Bernstein, David, 189 Berry, Wendell, 121 Bhabha, Homi, 167 Biograph Company, 184–185, 224n9 biology, 6, 34–52; cellular and developmental , 37–41; and Chicken-ofTomorrow Contest, 15, 35, 44–52, 49, 209–210nn13,20,22–24, 211n30; and chicken production during World War II, 42–44; and embryology, 17, 34, 36–42, 45, 50, 52, 82, 209n5; evolutionary, 16, 40, 85, 161, 163, 168–171; and industrial designers, 34–36, 42 biomedicine, 6, 21, 34, 92–93, 99, 109, 139, 155, 191, 195 biosecurity, 109–110, 112, 120, 219n30; Biosecurity Australia, 116–117 BirdLife International, 110 birth, 14, 17, 139, 208n10 blackface minstrelsy, 182–183, 186, 224n7 Black Minorcas, 54 Blyth, Edward, 170 Bork, Robert H., 187 Boston Public Garden poultry show, 54, 56 Bourdieu, Pierre, 158 bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 32, 112 Boyd, William, 147 Bradbury, Ray, 16, 27–29, 31 Brainard, Curtis, 113–114, 218n26 Brandth, Berit, 145 breeding/breeders, 4, 14, 16; artificial insemination, 147–148; and breed origin, 158, 161, 170, 171–177, 223nn28,29; and chicken culture, 53–62, 55, 58, 64, 66–70, 73, 211–212n2; and Chicken-of-Tomorrow Contest, 44–52, 210n23; and Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (Vanmechelen), 156, 158–161, 163, 166–167, 175–176, 221nn1,3; and cross-breeding, 167–168, 173–175; and eugenics, 86–87, 190–194; and gender, 48–50, 54–55, 55, 58, 73, 104; and hybridity, 156, 158–161, 163, 166–167, 170, 171–177, 221nn1,3; and inbreeding, 163, 168–169; and My Year of Meats (Ozeki), 147; and Pagliuso’s father, 66–70, 160...

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