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The blackness of black : key concepts in critical discourse / William David Hart.
Author
Hart, William David
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
©2020
Description
xi, 249 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HT1581 .H37 2020
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Black people
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Race identity
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Philosophy
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Series
Philosophy of race
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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.
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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.
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ISBN
9781793615862 ((hardcover))
1793615861 ((hardcover))
1793615888
9781793615886
LCCN
2021279750
OCLC
1190782379
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