Afro-pessimism
Britishnoun
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This is a book rooted less in pulp than in Afro-pessimism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
There’s a spectrum with everything from Afro-pessimism to “The Black future is in joy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Here, I’m playing off the school of thought known as Afro-pessimism, which holds that Black lives are endlessly inflected and informed by anti-Black animosity and experiences of pain and loss.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
Rather than collapsing into "Afro-pessimism," it delineates a template for a radical restructuring of society.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2021
He revisited books by Frantz Fanon, Orlando Patterson and others working in the traditions of Afro-pessimism and psychoanalysis, Caribbean and Black studies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
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