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differences (2024) 35 (2): 157–183.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of Afropessimism. The essay interrogates how looking for the distortion of the academic spaces that surround and engage black thought—namely, American studies, ethnic studies, and women and gender studies—renders visible (presuming we have the right instruments) the production of black (w)holes. Finally...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 85–113.
Published: 01 December 2021
... on new meaning because of its powerful influence on Afropessimist theorizing (see Douglass ; Warren, Ontological ). But Spillers has been claimed not only by Afropessimism. As Elizabeth Abel has argued, one should not forget that Spillers’s most famous essay, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” (1987), can...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 163–211.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Studies has born many such haints in the process of excising the monstrous holdovers of its extra-academic origins and interventions seen as intrusions on Black Studies’ crystallizing institutional forms. On the occasion of Hortense Spillers’s recent remarks about afropessimism and celebrations...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2024
... (black) study,” dwelling specifically on the black (w)hole that Afropessimism engenders for black feminist academics (157). Bailey’s piece autotheoretically charts the intimate ways in which “Black (W)holes” has animated her own academic and personal journeys and theorizes the ways in which the essay has...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 27–57.
Published: 01 September 2023
... Studies 2023 abolition afropessimism carceral studies historiography slave narrative slavery Abolition is the interminable radicalization of every radical movement, but a radicalization through the perverse affirmation of deracination, an uprooting of the natal, the nation, and the notion...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 89–108.
Published: 01 September 2024
... . “ Interstices: A Small Drama of Words .” Black 152 – 75 . Spillers Hortense . “ Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book .” Black 203 – 29 . Wilderson Frank B. III . “ Blacks and the Master/Slave Relation .” Afropessimism: An Introduction . Minneapolis : Racked...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 134–162.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., Cameron Butler, and Patrick Teed. I would also like to thank the organizers of the 2021 Strategies of Critique graduate conference for soliciting this paper and the panel “A Politics without Claim—Abolition and Afropessimism,” where I had the joy of speaking alongside Evelyn Amponsah, Marcelle-Anne...
