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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents a webinar\n\nFRANK WILDERSON 
 III\nAFROPESSIMISM\nwith Davey D\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said's 
 Orientalism and Franz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, Afropessimism is a 
 brilliant account of the experience of being black. The black radical 
 tradition has drawn upon the term as a way to acknowledge the power, depth, 
 and vitality of the resilience and radical imagination of people of African 
 descent.\n\nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking 
 philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the 
 dynamic principles of an increasingly influential Intellectual movement 
 that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery.\n\nRather 
 than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, 
 Frank B. Wilderson demonstrates that the social construct of slavery, as 
 seen through pervasive, anti-black subjugation and violence, is hardly a 
 relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization today, 
 and that black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any 
 other oppressed group. In exceptionally clear prose, Wilderson juxtaposes 
 his own seemingly idyllic upbringing in mid-century Minneapolis with the 
 harsh reality he would later encounter, whether in radicalized, late 1960's 
 Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the such literary 
 tradition of works by W.E.B. DuBois, Malcolm X and James Baldwin, 
 Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity.\n\nFrank B. 
 Wilderson III, professor and chair of African American Studies, and a core 
 faculty member of the Culture & Theory Ph.D. Program at UC Irvine; is an 
 award-winning writer whose books include Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and 
 Apartheid; and Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. 
 Antagonisms.  \n \nDavey D is host of Hard Knock Radio (HKR) on KPFA, an 
 award-winning daily syndicated prime time afternoon show focusing on Hip 
 Hop culture and politics.\n\nSuggested Donation $5-$20.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/12/18836603.php
SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III: Afropessimism
LOCATION:Online webinar
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/12/18836603.php
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