What could a revolutionary thinker like Frantz Fanon possibly draw from the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-egalitarian, anti-democrat, and anti-socialist? Nietzsche clearly influenced Black Skin, White Masks, a book framed by references to Nietzsche in its introductory and penultimate chapters. Although the first reference is a misattributed quotation, the second is a…| Blog of the APA
Introduction Contemporary critical theories of Black life, particularly Afropessimism as formulated by Frank Wilderson and the postcolonial fatalism found in Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony (2001), have produced a striking impasse: frameworks seeking to disclose the depth of Black negation increasingly foreclose the possibility of Black agency. In these accounts, Black subjectivity is rendered ontologically…| Blog of the APA
On the first anniversary of the hanging of John Brown, December 3, 1860, abolitionists from Boston and around the country assembled in Tremont Temple to discuss the question, “How can American slavery be abolished?” Among the scheduled speakers were John Brown Jr., Wendell Phillips, and Frederick Douglass. But the city’s business leaders, perhaps with support…| Blog of the APA