Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship
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Article
Abstract
McGhee (2021) concludes the introduction to The Sum of Us by declaring that she is “fundamentally a hopeful person, because [she knows] that decisions made the world as it is and that better decisions can change it” (p. xxiii). In this brief response I want to take on two problematic aspects of McGhee’s declaration, her hope and her voluntarism. I use an Afropessimistic lens so that we might, as Frank B. Wilderson III (2020) urges, make some of McGhee’s book “more dangerous to the U.S. and the world” (p. 250).
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Parris, Amanda
(2022)
"What Us?,"
Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship: Vol. 7, Article 4.
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https://repository.usfca.edu/jips/vol7/iss1/4
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