When Reform Isn't Enough: Afropessimism's Argument for a New Society

This week, co-hosts Eric and Medaya talk to professor, writer, and revolutionary, Frank B. Wilderson III and his latest book, Afropessimism.

By LARB Radio HourJuly 20, 2020

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This week, co-hosts Eric and Medaya talk to professor, writer, and revolutionary, Frank B. Wilderson III, whose latest book, Afropessimism, is a work of memoir and theory. Wilderson defines Afropessism, the ways it has been misrepresented and how it can shape our understanding of contemporary justice. Wilderson also recounts his childhood and how he became an Afropessimist.

Also, writer and translator Joyce Zonana returns to recommends Betty Smith's classic from the 1940s, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.