Afro-pessimism

British  

noun

1. the belief that the provision of aid to African countries is futile

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Example Sentences

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