Afro-pessimism

GPTKB entity

Statements (37)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:logic
gptkb:philosophy
critical framework
gptkbp:criticizedFor essentialism
Afro-optimism
intersectionality theorists
lack of political agency
pessimistic outlook
gptkbp:developedBy gptkb:Christina_Sharpe
gptkb:Saidiya_Hartman
gptkb:Orlando_Patterson
Frank B. Wilderson III
Jared Sexton
gptkbp:emergedIn late 20th century
gptkbp:focusesOn gptkb:Blackness
slavery
anti-Blackness
racial ontology
social death
gptkbp:hasConcept gratuitous violence
non-analogous suffering
ontological exclusion
permanent condition of Black suffering
social death
structural antagonism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Afro-pessimism
gptkbp:languageOfWork English
gptkbp:originatedIn gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:publishedIn Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms
Afro-Pessimism (book by Frank B. Wilderson III)
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Afrofuturism
critical race theory
postcolonial theory
Black studies
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Africa_Rising
gptkb:African_American_philosophy
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6