In ‘Afropessimism,’ a Black Intellectual Mixes Memoir and Theory

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In his new book, “Afropessimism,” Frank B. Wilderson III writes that earlier in life he saw himself, as an African-American, “as a degraded Human,” his plight “analogous to the plight of the Palestinians, the Native American and the working class.” But at some point he came to question this comparison.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/books/afropessimism-frank-wilderson-interview.html