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Book SynopsisDespite 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. Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of blackness.
Trade Review“With
The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness we are at once given a subtle new radical voice in thought and a sustained and necessary new exposure to the emplacement of matters of ‘Blackness’ across the hemisphere, by way of a wholly other experience of all that is Mexico.” —Nahum Dimitri Chandler, author of
Toward an African Future: Of the Limit of WorldTable of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Impossible Yanga
- Chapter Two: On Apparent Emanations
- Chapter Three: The Gravity of Lincoln and the Matter of Black Life in the Liberal Imagination
- Chapter Four: The Olmecs and the Inevitability of Holeness
- Chapter Five: 2020 Visions
- Afterthought: Nigrescent Futures
- Notes
- Bibliography
