The Nigrescent Beyond

The Nigrescent Beyond
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780810142060
ISBN-13 : 0810142066
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Book Synopsis The Nigrescent Beyond by : Ricardo A. Wilson

Download or read book The Nigrescent Beyond written by Ricardo A. Wilson and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of blackness and thinks through how it can be used both to productively unsettle contemporary multicultural and postracial discourses within the United States and to further the interrogations of being and blackness within the larger field of black studies. Wilson models a practice of reading that honors the disruptive possibilities offered by an ever-present awareness of that which lies, irretrievable, beyond the horizon of vanishing itself. In doing so, he engages with historical accounts detailing maroon activities in early New Spain, contemporary coverage of the push to make legible Afro-Mexican identities, the electronic archives of the Obama presidency, and the work of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Octavio Paz, Ivan Van Sertima, Miguel Covarrubias, Steven Spielberg, and Colson Whitehead, among others.


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