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The Blackness of Black
Key Concepts in Critical Discourse
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2020
Summary
This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the discourse of the blackness of black. This critical discourse developed during the last two decades as scholars explored what Saidiya Hartman describes as the afterlife of slavery. Hartman’s concept, which argues for a troubling continuity between the status of enslaved and emancipated Black people, is the pivot between discursive tributaries and trajectories. Tributaries of the discourse of the blackness of black comprise five foundational concepts: Frantz Fanon’s “phobogenic blackness,” Orlando Patterson’s “social death,” Cedric Robinson’s “racial capitalism and the black radical tradition,” and Hortense Spillers’ “flesh.” The book traces three trajectories within the afterlife of slavery: Frank Wilderson’s “ Afropessimism,” Fred Moten’s “generative blackness,” and Calvin Warren’s “black nihilism.” This ensemble of concepts enable us to understand what is at state in how we understand the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people.
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1586-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1587-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
250
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
List of Abbreviations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introductory Remarks No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 1 Phobogenic Blackness No access
Chapter 2 Social Death No access
Chapter 3 Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition No access
