Afropessimism | Community Talk
May 3, 2022 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Louiza – Event Space
2808 NE MLK Blvd Suite B, Portland
(This is a free, catered event.)

On Tuesday, May 3rd starting at 6:30pm, Professor Wilderson will engage COBM membership regarding his recent book, titled Afropessimism. This book asks the following questions: Why does race seem to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe? Why does a perpetual cycle of slavery―in all its political, intellectual, and cultural forms―continue to define the Black experience? And why is anti-Black violence such a predominant feature not only in the United States but around the world? These are just some of the compelling questions that animate Afropessimism, Frank B. Wilderson III’s seminal work on the philosophy of Blackness.

Radical in conception, remarkably poignant, and with soaring flights of lyrical prose, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. It positions Wilderson as a paradigmatic thinker and as a twenty-first-century inheritor of many of the African American literary traditions established in centuries past.