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005			20200616150114.0
008			200108s2020 nyu b 000 0aeng
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020			_a163149614X _qhardcover
020			_z9781631496158 _qelectronic publication
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100	1		_aWilderson, Frank B., _cIII, _d1956- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAfropessimism / _cFrank B. Wilderson III.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, N.Y. : _bLiveright Publishing Corporation, _c[2020]
300			_axi, 352 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aFor 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aWilderson, Frank B., _cIII, _d1956-
650		0	_aAfrican American intellectuals _vBiography. _9113786
650		0	_aAfrican American college teachers _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aBlack race _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aBlack race _xPsychology.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xRace identity. _921138
650		0	_aPolitical activists _zUnited States _vBiography. _960278
650		0	_aCollege teachers _zUnited States _vBiography. _9219733
650		0	_aRacism. _939240
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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