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BOOK
Title Afropessimism / Frank B. Wilderson III
Imprint New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
©2020

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Bellevue:Vuxen facklitteratur (300-399)  378 Wilderson III engelska    DUE 24-04-22  ---
Edition First edition
Descript xi, 352 pages 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Wilderson, Frank B., III, 1956-
Afrikansk diaspora
Diskriminering
Rasism
Afro-amerikanska intellektuella
Högskolelärare
Svarta
Afro-amerikaner
Politiska aktivister
Sociala förhållanden
African American college teachers.
African American intellectuals.
College teachers.
Political activists.
Racism.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Black race -- Psychology.
Förenta staterna
United States.
Självbiografier
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Classmark 378.12092
Lz Wilderson, Frank B., III
Ohe-qa
ISBN/ISSN 9781631496141 hardcover
163149614X hardcover
9781631496158
electronic publication 9781631496158
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