Engaging with issues including black identity, agency, and antiblackness, this book explores the positive ethos of early African American intellectuals and their confidence in national democratic institutions, in contrast to the emergence of a more negative 'Afro-Pessimism' among their present-day counterparts.
Engaging with issues including black identity, agency, and antiblackness, this book explores the positive ethos of early African American intellectuals and their confidence in national democratic institutions, in contrast to the emergence of a more negative 'Afro-Pessimism' among their present-day counterparts.