The Persuasion of Miss Kate by Kathleen Baldwin

The Persuasion of Miss Kate by Kathleen Baldwin

A seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression, Frank B. Wilderson I, a truly indispensable thinker (Fred Moten), demonstrates that the social construct of slavery, as seen through pervasive, anti-black subjugation and violence, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter, whether in radicalized, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois, Malcolm X and Baldwin, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit.

KATHLEEN BALDWIN has written several award-winning traditional Regency romances for adults, including Lady Fiasco, winner of Cataromance's Best Traditional Regency, and Mistaken Kiss, a Holt Medallion Finalist. The Stranje House series, including A School for Unusual Girls, Exile for Dreamers, Refuge for Masterminds, is her first series for teens. She lives in Texas with her family.

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ISBN 13	9780988836464
ISBN 10	0988836467
Title	The Persuasion of Miss Kate
Author	Kathleen Baldwin
Series	My Notorious Aunt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kathleen Baldwin Bda Ink Lion Books
Year published	2021-04-27
Number of pages	258
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