The blackness of black : key concepts in critical discourse / William David Hart.

Author
Hart, William David [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
  • ©2020
Description
xi, 249 pages ; 24 cm

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    Philosophy of race [More in this series]
    Summary note
    '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.'--Publisher description.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.
    Contents
    • Part 1: Discursive Intimations : Phobogenic Blackness
    • Social Death
    • Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition
    • Flesh
    • Part 2: Inaugural Gesture and Three Trajectories in the Discourse of the Blackness of Black : The Afterlife of Slavery
    • Afropessimism
    • Generative Blackness
    • Black Nihilism.
    ISBN
    • 9781793615862 ((hardcover))
    • 1793615861 ((hardcover))
    • 1793615888
    • 9781793615886
    LCCN
    2021279750
    OCLC
    1190782379
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