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Afropessimism
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Biographies GeneralBlack American Studies
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781324090519
Publisher: Liveright Pub Corp
Published: Sep 28 2021
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Praised as a trenchant, funny, and unsparing work of memoir and philosophy (Aaron Robertson, ?Literary Hub), Frank B. Wilderson's Afropessimism arrived at a moment when protests against police brutality once again swept the nation. Presenting an argument we can no longer ignore, Wilderson insists that we must view Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of memoir, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.Wilderson's ambitious book offers its readers two great gifts. First, it strives mightily to make its pessimistic vision plausible. . . . Second, the book depicts a remarkable life, lived with daring and sincerity.--Paul C. Taylor, Washington Post
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