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Afropessimism’s Contributions to Black Studies

September 4, 2020September 17, 2020 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for

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Johann Moritz Rugendas, "Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil," 1835. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / NYPL Photographs and Prints Division.

Blackness, Pessimism, and the Human

September 5, 2017September 8, 2017 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism, humanism, race, Racial Violence, violence

There is a specter haunting black studies, black freedom struggles, humanism, and the politics of recognition. This recalcitrant specter currently

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