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After Blackness, Then Blackness: Afro-Pessimism, Black Life, and Classical Hip Hop as Counter-Performance
2017
Just as Frank Wilderson cites the propensity of the black performance to obscure and evade black life and reality and calls for a more "direct reflection" on the "ghosts and grammar" that haunt the enactment of black subjectivity, Jared Sexton's critique of Fred Moten's optimism lies in the latter's emphasis on the "fugitive ontology" of blackness, an ontology that has the black always on the run from the structures that govern a priori the anti-black world into which it would pretend to
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