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The View from Nowhere: On Frank Wilderson's Afropessimism
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Nick Mitchell reviews Frank Wilderson’s Afropessimism, arguing that Afropessimism, as a theoretical framework, represents interpersonal relations as if they were general structural conditions. For Mitchell, Afropessimism ignores the situated, complicated solidarities necessary to construct an emancipatory Black politics.
Title: The View from Nowhere: On Frank Wilderson's Afropessimism
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Nick Mitchell reviews Frank Wilderson’s Afropessimism, arguing that Afropessimism, as a theoretical framework, represents interpersonal relations as if they were general structural conditions.
For Mitchell, Afropessimism ignores the situated, complicated solidarities necessary to construct an emancipatory Black politics.
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