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  title info:
    title: Afropessimism
  name:
    name part: Wilderson, Frank B.
    name part: III
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 352 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Frank B. Wilderson III.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: III
      name part: Wilderson, Frank B
      name part: 1956-
  subject:
    name:
      name part: III
      name part: Wilderson, Frank B
      name part: 1956-
  subject:
    topic: African American intellectuals
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American college teachers
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Black race
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Black race
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    topic: Political activists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: College teachers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Racism
  subject:
    topic: African American college teachers
  subject:
    topic: African American intellectuals
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    topic: Black race
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: College teachers
  subject:
    topic: Political activists
  subject:
    topic: Racism
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers
  classification: E185.97.W6128 A3 2020
  classification: 378.1/2092 B
  identifier: 9781631496141
  identifier: 163149614X
  identifier: 9781631496158
  identifier: 2019051446
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200108
    record change date: 20200729074136.0
    record identifier: in00004168936
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng