Darkening Blackness
Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought
(Sprache: Englisch)
The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive...
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The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the new and shiny face of racism? In the time of Black Lives Matter, the unswerving dehumanisation and killing of Black people form the bedrock of our civilization. But a vast anti-Black collective feeling also manifests itself as a more insidious shared unconscious, hidden from view by the doctrines we deem as emancipatory. This book challenges the simplistic and pacifying aspects of current African-American thought. It puts forward alternatives to intersectionality, poststructuralism and radical democracy, which are often prioritized in the Black analysis of race, gender and class. In the twenty-first century, Black studies and Africana philosophy have witnessed the birth of two new fields, Afropessimism and Black Male Studies. Spearheaded by figures such as Tommy J. Curry and Frank Wilderson, they have emerged as truly autonomous ways of interpreting and analysing the causes and consequences of Black rage against systemic racism. Darkening Blackness offers an original genealogy of the new iconoclasm in Black thought. Accessible, historically informed and politically alert, this book is a critical analysis of the groundbreaking theories and strategies which offer a radical reconception of the future of Black lives throughout the world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Darkening Blackness “
Introduction Chapter 1 The Sources of the Afropessimist Paradigm Chapter 2 Theoretical Origins of Afropessimism Chapter 3 From the Black Man as Problem to the Study of Black Men Chapter 4 A Politics of Antagonisms Postface By Tommy Curry Notes Index
Autoren-Porträt von Norman Ajari
Norman Ajari is a lecturer in Francophone Black Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Norman Ajari
- 2023, 1. Auflage, 224 Seiten, Masse: 14,2 x 21,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Matthew B. Smith
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1509554998
- ISBN-13: 9781509554997
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Norman Ajari's Darkening Blackness is a masterful defense of Afro-American pessimism and Black Male Studies against the misguided view that 'pessimism' means hopelessness and eternal defeat. Instead, pessimism is treated as meaning the rejection of fantasies, especially the fantasy that says one more revision will alter insidious white racialized civil society and intrinsically unjust Euro/American institutions. Step into Ajari's theoretical world and step out unburdened by fantasy."Leonard Harris, Purdue University
"For those who still do not understand that the pessimism in Afropessimism is not an emotional dispensation but a meta-critique of the first principles of Western thought, Norman Ajari's Darkening Blackness is required reading. His analysis of Black Male Studies will have as many people nodding their heads as shaking their heads, which is the first step toward rigorous and honest debate."
Frank B. Wilderson III, Chancellor's Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
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