What Us?

Authors

Amanda ParrisFollow

Document Type

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).

Citation Information

Parris, Amanda (2022) "What Us?," Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship: Vol. 7, Article 4.
Available at: https://repository.usfca.edu/jips/vol7/iss1/4