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Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson

The LRB Podcast

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Afropessimism Is a Black Culture

Leading intellectual symptoms of this period at least in what you might call black studies is Afropessimism. The idea that black people occupy this position of immutable eternal victimhood and all you can really do is cultivate your own garden. "There's certainly emotional truth to the mood as well yes abs"

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