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Afropessimism
A lucid and compelling explication of a provocative and disruptively radical philosophy of race and colonialism. Wilderson twines together the ideas of a persistent, ineradicable process of Black enslavement with personal memoir. Theory and narrative, each providing illumination of the other. Afropessism is not aiming to make anyone comfortable, but the work has an unflinching, raw beauty and rings true.
“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 sl...