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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 44–65.
Published: 01 April 2024
... antagonism that pits Blackness and Asianness against each other while further institutionalizing white supremacy. 8 Indeed, the film's Asian elements work against what Afropessimism calls non-Black people of color's “junior partnership”—popularly thought of as adjacency—with whiteness/humanness. 9 I...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 48–67.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of social life predicated on antiblackness. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Rebecca A. Sheehan 2024 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). corpsing Afropessimism dance and film horror choreography FRONTIS...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (2): 92–107.
Published: 01 October 2024
... 4.0). game studies play studies chess Theophilus Thompson Afropessimism FRONTIS. Frontispiece problem from Chess Problems by Theophilus A. Thompson. FRONTIS. Frontispiece problem from Chess Problems by Theophilus A. Thompson. In chess, zugzwang is a catastrophic...
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liquid blackness (2024) 8 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 April 2024
... unacknowledged scene of exchange: Afropessimism's position that non-black people of color hold a “junior partnership . . . with whiteness/humanness.” 37 Focusing on Moonlight 's multiple homages to Asian cinema and particularly Wong Kar-wai—including Wong's rendering of women as “ornaments...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 78–97.
Published: 01 April 2023
... and mobilized. 9 In proposing a black trans aesthetic of brokenness, I wish to offer a different conceptualization and use for brokenness. This is not a rejection of the conditions described, nor is it a theory of negativity in the lineage of queer negativity or Afropessimism. I am after a theory...
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liquid blackness (2022) 6 (2): 162–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... , dir. Spell . Paramount Pictures , 2020 . Underwood Ron , dir. Tremors . Universal Pictures , 1990 . Walpole Horace . The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story . 1764 ; repr., New York : Oxford University Press , 1964 . Wilderson Frank . Afropessimism . New York...
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liquid blackness (2023) 7 (1): 4–24.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of disturbance, complication, elaboration, repudiation, and renovation. In this collection we can clearly see the antinomian critical tendencies of Afrofuturism, with its attention to speculative production, and Afropessimism, with its capacities for trenchant refutation of simulated critical hope...
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