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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 19–33.
Published: 01 December 2015
... work that has reflected on the melancholic attachments of black studies, as well as a growing interest in Afro-pessimism and the long afterlives of slavery, the spirit and force of these contributions have yet to shape our approach to the archive of black freedom, which is often nothing more than...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (2 (143)): 97–119.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., “Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies,” 786 . 57 Roberts, “Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies,” 786 . 58 This reading of Wynter certainly runs against the ongoing elaboration of the field of Afro-pessimism. Her theory of overrepresentation is variously claimed and critiqued...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 181–191.
Published: 01 December 2014
... once a week and talk about ideas. In that same vein attached is my newest abstract / cry for attention. It’s about Afropessimism it’s my latest report on the problem of cubanity it’s the last little riff from my book it’s not so queer, more brown I hope it makes me the most powerful lesbian...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 1–23.
Published: 01 June 2021
... Life of Social Death: On Afro-pessimism and Black Optimism .” InTensions , no. 5 ( 2011 ). www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/jaredsexton.php . Sharpe Christina . In the Wake: On Blackness and Being . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . Shaw J. Brendan . “ Sandy Still...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (2 (103)): 31–56.
Published: 01 June 2010
... Sexton ∙ Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery would hardly fit into the description of either of Mbembe’s favorite targets — Marx- ism and Nationalism, or, when taken together, what he calls “Afro-pessimism” — but her analysis suffers the same fate due mainly, I think, to the idea Mbembe implicitly...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (4 (125)): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2015
... reveal heterogeneous aspirations that challenge a “sinking sense of the vacuity of bourgeois models of freedom.” Rusert repositions these archival objects in relation to recent work on Afro-pessimism, probing the tensions between...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (1 (82)): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Caribbean culture (or, for that matter, the culture of any area) as determined and circumscribed by certain basic events of its history. As a representative example of this “localized historicism,” I would point to Richard D. E. Burton’s Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 27–50.
Published: 01 September 2016
... between the worker’s exploitation and slave’s social death—a common move within an important strand of contemporary black critical theorizing often defined under the heading Afro-pessimism—offers no better answers to this conundrum, merely a kind of inversion in which slavery and the antiblackness...
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Social Text (2002) 20 (2 (71)): 125–146.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Page, and others. By 1997 more black diasporic Web sites began appearing, including ones for the Republic of Ghana, the Afro- Caribbean Chamber of Commerce, Camden (UK) Black Parents’ and Teachers’ Association, Canadian Artists’ Network: Black Artists In Action, Egypt’s Information Highway Project...