{"product_id":"the-nigrescent-beyond-mexico-the-united-states-and-the-psychic-vanishing-of-blackness-paperback-softback-9780810142046","title":"The Nigrescent Beyond; Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810142046","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Nigrescent Beyond\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRicardo A. Wilson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810142046\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 July 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages, 7 black \u0026amp; white images\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.9 x 1.2 cm, 0.24 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“With \u003ci\u003eThe Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e we are at once given a subtle new radical voice in thought and a sustained and necessary new exposure to the emplacement of matters of ‘Blackness’ across the hemisphere, by way of a wholly other experience of all that is Mexico.” —Nahum Dimitri Chandler, author of \u003ci\u003eToward an African Future: Of the Limit of World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDespite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In \u003ci\u003eThe Nigrescent Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e, Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of blackness and thinks through how it can be used both to productively unsettle contemporary multicultural and postracial discourses within the United States and to further the interrogations of being and blackness within the larger field of black studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wilson models a practice of reading that honors the disruptive possibilities offered by an ever-present awareness of that which lies, irretrievable, beyond the horizon of vanishing itself. In doing so, he engages with historical accounts detailing maroon activities in early New Spain, contemporary coverage of the push to make legible Afro-Mexican identities, the electronic archives of the Obama presidency, and the work of Carlos de SigÜenza y GÓngora, Octavio Paz, Ivan Van Sertima, Miguel Covarrubias, Steven Spielberg, and Colson Whitehead, among others.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One: Impossible Yanga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two: On Apparent Emanations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three: The Gravity of Lincoln and the Matter of Black Life in the Liberal Imagination\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four: The Olmecs and the Inevitability of Holeness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five: 2020 Visions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterthought: Nigrescent Futures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555667013912,"sku":"9780810142046","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-nigrescent-beyond-mexico-the-united-states-and-the-psychic-vanishing-of-blackness-paperback-softback-9780810142046","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}