Blackness of Black - Key Concepts in Critical Discourse

This book explores the relations among blackness, antiblackness, and Black people within the critical discourse of the blackness of black. In addition to Saidiya Hartman's axial concept of the "afterlife of slavery," the book explores Frank Wilderson's "Afropessimism," Fred Moten's "generative blackness," and Calvin Warren's "black nihilism."

List of contents

Preliminary Remarks
Part 1: Discursive Intimations
Chapter 1: Phobogenic Blackness
Chapter 2: Social Death
Chapter 3: Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition
Chapter 4: Flesh
Part 2: Inaugural Gesture and Three Trajectories in the Discourse of the Blackness of Black
Chapter 5: The Afterlife of Slavery
Chapter 6: Afropessimism
Chapter 7: Generative Blackness
Chapter 8: Black Nihilism
Concluding Remarks

About the author

William David Hart is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College.

Product details

• Authors: William David Hart
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2022
• EAN: 9781793615886
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-588-6
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories