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Bezig met laden... Afropessimismdoor Frank B. III Wilderson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A deeply thoughtful personal book about being a black citizen in the world. Afropessimism involves a philosophy the Blacks are useful tools as victims of not just Whites but all other races and ethnicities. In the book he refers to Blacks as Slaves and the others as Humans. Humans are people but slaves are merely implements to be used by Humans. Wilderson mines his personal experiences as evidence for his contentions. You may or may not believe the author's thesis but it is definitely food for thought. ( ) It is normal for drivers to judge whether they can through a yellow light before it turns red. It is not normal to be stopped at a red light with a car racing towards you playing chicken with your rear end. For the author life is always a game of chicken where the results are real and life threatening. The descriptive writing takes you along in his journey called living. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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