None Like Us : Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life /

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It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In this book, the author reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--A kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Best, Stephen Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Black people > Study and teaching.
Black people > Race identity.
Aesthetics, Black.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Esthetique noire.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: unfit for history
  • 1. My beautiful elimination
  • 2. On failing to make the past present
  • Interstice: a gossamer writing
  • 3. The history of people who did not exist
  • 4. Rumor in the archive.

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