TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilderson,Frank B.
TI  - Afropessimism
SN  - 9781631496141
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Liveright Publishing Corporation
KW  - Wilderson, Frank B.,
KW  - African American intellectuals
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American college teachers
KW  - United States
KW  - Black race
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Psychology
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Political activists
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Racism
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; For Halloween I washed my face -- Juice from a neck bone -- Hattie McDaniel is dead -- Punishment Park -- The trouble with humans -- Mind the closing doors -- Mario's -- Epilogue: The new century
N2  - "In the tradition of Edward Said's Orientalism and Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. A seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, Frank B. Wilderson III, "a truly indispensable thinker" (Fred Moten), demonstrates that the social construct of slavery, as seen through pervasive, anti-black subjugation and violence, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter, whether in radicalized, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois, Malcolm X and Baldwin, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit"--
ER  -