None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

(Part of the Theory Q Series)

by Stephen Best

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It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a "we" at the point of "our" violent origin. Best argues that there is and can be no "we" following from such a time and place,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:147800150X

ISBN13:9781478001508

Release Date:November 2018

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary

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None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

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