Darkening Blackness (eBook)

Norman Ajari is a lecturer in Francophone Black Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Introduction


Chapter 1 The Sources of the Afropessimist Paradigm

Chapter 2 Theoretical Origins of Afropessimism

Chapter 3 From the Black Man as Problem to the Study of Black Men

Chapter 4 A Politics of Antagonisms


Postface By Tommy Curry


Notes

Index

"Norman Ajari's Darkening Blackness is a masterful defense of Afro-American pessimism and Black Male Studies against the misguided view that 'pessimism' means hopelessness and eternal defeat. Instead, pessimism is treated as meaning the rejection of fantasies, especially the fantasy that says one more revision will alter insidious white racialized civil society and intrinsically unjust Euro/American institutions. Step into Ajari's theoretical world and step out unburdened by fantasy."
Leonard Harris, Purdue University

"For those who still do not understand that the pessimism in Afropessimism is not an emotional dispensation but a meta-critique of the first principles of Western thought, Norman Ajari's Darkening Blackness is required reading. His analysis of Black Male Studies will have as many people nodding their heads as shaking their heads, which is the first step toward rigorous and honest debate."
Frank B. Wilderson III, Chancellor's Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Irvine