Podcast: LARB Radio Hour (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: When Reform Isn't Enough: Afropessimism's Argument for a New Society
Pub date: 2020-07-18

Notes from The Intellectual:

Discussing the definitions of Afropessism, the ways it has been misrepresented and how it can shape our understanding of contemporary justice.

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.

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