Afropessimism: There are undergraduates who feel nothing ‘is going to stop these cops from killing us’

Afropessimism: There are undergraduates who feel nothing ‘is going to stop these cops from killing us’

In Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III – a snarky signifying furthermucker on the page – describes a moment of extreme annoyance after a film lecture he gave in which junior partner exceptionalism figured in his narrative analysis. A distraught white female academic beseeches him, “What about solidarity between races?” Wilderson’s...

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Afropessimism: You sure don’t catch hell because you’re an American; if you was an American, you wouldn’t catch no hell

Afropessimism: You sure don’t catch hell because you’re an American; if you was an American, you wouldn’t catch no hell

Afropessimism is all the rage among millennial Black academics and activists – most notably among Black feminist critical race theorists, who themselves are now the prime targets of the MAGA crowd. Black intellectuals haven’t enjoyed this much pop currency among the right wing since Black Power took over buildings to...

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