Afropessimism
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1324090510
ISBN-13
9781324090519
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Ltd
Imprint
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 28th, 2021
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
302 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 20.70 x 2.50 cms
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Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black.
A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, Frank B. Wilderson III, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilisation that flourishes today, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose, he juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic Minneapolis upbringing with the harshness later encountered, whether in Berkeley or Soweto. Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.
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