I’m currently working through Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death. Wikipedia says
Orlando Patterson’s book Slavery and Social Death, first published in 1982, forms a theoretical point of departure for almost all strands of Afro-pessimism.
but also notes that according to Patterson, his concept/definition of social death doesn’t apply to contemporary black life in the USA.
What should I read next to understand the Afropessimist arguments that Patterson’s conception of social death is too narrow, etc.?
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