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Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson (2021, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherLiveright Publishing Corporation

ISBN-101324090510

ISBN-139781324090519

eBay Product ID (ePID)5050402904

Product Key Features

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAfropessimism

SubjectPhilosophers, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year2021

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Education, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorFrank Wilderson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal371.82996

SynopsisLonglisted for the National Book Award and hailed as "a bellwether of things to come" (Aaron Robertson), Afropessimism exploded conventional theories of race relations in America, presenting the tenets of an intellectual movement that sees Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Drawing on the works of Gramsci and Fanon, as well as on literature, film, and critical theory, Frank B. Wilderson III, one of our "boldest and most unflinching theorists of the indispensability ... of anti-Black violence and racism" (Khalil Gibran Muhammad), powerfully demonstrates that the social construct of slavery is not, in fact, a relic of the past, but the very engine that powers our civilization. Without this master-slave dynamic, Wilderson argues, the calculus bolstering world civilization would collapse. Interwoven with autobiographical stories that juxtapose Wilderson's seemingly idyllic upbringing in mid-century Minneapolis with the abject racism he later encountered in Berkeley, California, and South Africa, Afropessimism not only delivers a formidable philosophical account of Blackness, but "depicts a remarkable life, lived with daring and sincerity" (Paul C. Taylor, Washington Post). Ultimately, Wilderson provides no restorative solution. Instead, he encourages us to recognize these historical and social conditions-and thus, the reality of our inherently racialized existence. Book jacket., "Wilderson's thinking teaches us to believe in the miraculous even as we decry the brutalities out of which miracles emerge"--Fred Moten, 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, ? 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

LC Classification NumberLC2717