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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"afropessimism"”.
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AS BLACKNESS BERNS: AN AFROPESSIMIST READING OF BERNARD SANDERS’ 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENT “TOGETHER”
… the advertisement via the emerging literature on Afropessimism to determine why supporters of Sanders created such a powerful and loyal collective and his proposed revolution against the 1% is ethical and possible. I conclude that his supporters created affective community in response to Sanders’ …
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They Don'y Expect You To Know Much: Black African International Students Encountering And Countering The Afropessimistic Attitude Within Academic Spaces
… accents, African students must contend with Afropessimism which in this study refers to the Western world’s negative perception of Africa. The study is a mixed methods study that seeks to understand how the Afropessimistic attitude impacts the way Black African international students are …
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#JuccoStruggle: A Critical Examination into the Lived Experiences of Black Male Community College Athletes
… during, and after college. The study deployed Afropessimism to frame the experiences of BMSAs; as such, I assumed that the continued violence against Black people was a physical projection of a psychic and emotional web sustained by the othering of Blackness or anti-Blackness. This study was …
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Blackness as a question of freedom: racial blackness in South African emancipatory thought
… dissertation, using the theoretical framework of Afropessimism, discusses how Blackness is an ethico-political structure, in which the slave's natal alienation and social death establishes the resilient forms of Black (non)being. This project centrally argues against locating a theory of the …
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SAMO©... Pedro Kilkerry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, das pilhagens ou o modus da crítica
… a Arkhé (2016) and by Frank B. Wilderson III, in Afropessimism (2021).
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America’s Enabler: How Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad Contributes to Racial Inertia
<p>Colson Whitehead’s <em>The Underground Railroad</em> was met with near universal acclaim and enjoys regard as an important work which illustrates the difficulty and horror that was black life under chattel slavery. This essay argues that despite the work’s stated purpose, its ultimate, if …
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Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War
Liberia’s protracted civil war was sustained for a period of 14-years (1989-2003), killing approximately 250 000 Liberians and displacing half of the population. Liberia’s war, like other contemporary African conflicts, has been persistently represented as an example of wanton violence, political …