Lindsey Stewart, "The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
New Books in Philosophy
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Black Lives in the South
Both sides are preoccupied with a black white relationships. Both seem to share the sense that black life will go awry without white intervention. Herston tried to live as thougha, white people were not our major concern and were not the centre of our lives. And this is part of why she struck such notes of discord in the public sphere. If you want to be seen as progressive, there are some norms with how you talk about black life in the public Sphere. In one of those norms is that it's always in terms of tragedy,. A of how devastating our racism makes our lives.
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