search "Afro pessimism" in my blog spheres to find more (like here for example , in this section of that blog post from the 'It is reasonable for us" to 'It is all very much the same.64' section) When we talk about social death, living death in regards to Afro Pessimism, this is what we mean: "21 Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkin University, 1973) p. 9. This invocation of death is meant also to figuratively conjure what W.E.B. Du Bois called “a death that is more than death,” namely the defeat and demise of those commitments and collaborations, ideas and ideals which accrue for us the imperative of duty." 84 Although Calvin Warren seems to reduce this broad terrain of “pathology” to nihilism, this need not follow. There is a long tradition of black social thought, from Du Bois and King, to Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, and Angela Davis that suggests more robustly normat...
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