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Afro-Pessimism BibliographyThis listing of reference resources and essential sources provides coverage of afro-pessimism.The counter stone and creating of the term describes the intersection of the diasporic identity andsocial aspects of blackness. Coined by Sony Lab’ou Tansi’s 1990 article in Jeune AfriqueEconomie, Afro-Pessimism offers a critical perspective of theorizing diaspora identities andBlack existence/non-existence.Scholars such as Saidiya Hartman, Frantz Fanon, Frank B. Wilderson and Hortense Spillers,amongst many others, have dealt with the subject of anti-blackness and Afro-Pessimism.Essential and canonized literature, comparative literature and various primary sources areincluded.Resources include call numbers, for patrons to easily inquire and obtain resources. AuburnAvenue Research Library maintains non-circulating policies of its collection; however, patronsare able to utilize materials in-house. Suggested search terms and keywords are provided tofurther guide patron’s research amongst Auburn Avenue Research Library and the AtlantaFulton Public Library catalog and digital libraries. The below Boolean Operators (AND, OR,also NOT) are simple words used to maximize search results.Forrest R. EvansLibrarian II, Reference and ual Collection:Frantz Fanon black skin, white maskAuthor: Julien, IsaacPub Date:1996Call #: DVD 305.8 FRANTZ500 Years LaterAuthor: Shahadah, Owen AlikPub Date: 2005Call #: DVD 305.896 FIVESankofaAuthor: Gerima, HailePub Date:1993Call #: VHS 791.43 SANKOFA

Hidden colors : the untold history of people of aboriginal, Moor & African descentAuthor: Nasheed, TariqPub Date: 2011Call #: DVD 305.896 HIDDENHidden colors 2 : the triumph of melaninAuthor: Nasheed, TariqPub Date: 2013Call #: DVD 305.896 HIDDENHidden colors 3 : the rules of racismAuthor: Nasheed, TariqPub Date: 2011Call #: DVD 305.896 HIDDENThe two nations of black AmericaAuthor: Cross, JunePub Date: 2008Call #: DVD 305.896 TWOBlack is-- black ain't a personal journey through black identityAuthor: Riggs, Marlon T.Pub Date: 2011Call #: DVD 305.800973 BLACKA Question of color color consciousness in Black AmericaAuthor: Sandler, KathePub Date: 1992Call #: VHS 305.896 QUESTIONSearch for identity : psychiatrists and sociologists discuss the Black personalityAuthor: Davidson, BasilPub Date: 1969Call #: CAS 305.896 IDENTITYCultural history of Afro-AmericansAuthor: Drake, St. ClairCall #: CAS 305.896 DRAKE

Books:Gender and the abjection of BlacknessAuthor: Bröck-Sallah, SabinePub Date: 2018Auburn Avenue Research Library: 305.896 BROCK-SALLAHBack to Black: retelling Black radicalism for the 21st centuryAuthor: Andrews, KehindePub Date: 2018Auburn Avenue Research Library: 941.004 ANDREWSBlack men, black feminism : Lucifer's nocturneAuthor: Sexton, JaredAuburn Avenue Research Library: 305.896 SEXTONPub Date: 2018Anti-black racism in early modern English drama : the other "otherAuthor: Chapman, MatthieuPub Date: 2017Auburn Avenue Research Library: 822.3 CHAPMANChallenging the legacies of racial resentment : Black health activism, educational justice,and legislative leadershipAuthor: Willoughby-Herard, TiffanyPub Date: 2016Auburn Avenue Research Library: 362.1 CHALLENGINGIn the Wake: On Blackness and BeingAuthor: Sharpe, Christina ElizabethAuburn Avenue Research Library: 305.8 SHARPEPub Date: 2016In the Wake: On Blackness and BeingAuthor: Sharpe, Christina ElizabethAuburn Avenue Research Library: 305.8 SHARPEPub Date: 2016The negritude movement : W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor,Frantz Fanon, and the evolution of an insurgent ideaAuthor: Rabaka, ReilandPub Date: 2015Auburn Avenue Research Library: 809.8896 RABAKAMaking Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600–2000Author: Parker, Kunal MadhukarPub Date: 2015Auburn Avenue Research Library: 342.73082 PARKEROn marronage: ethical confrontations with antiblacknessAuthor: Saucier, Paul KhalilPub Date: 2015Auburn Avenue Research Library: 305.8 ON

Pursuing Trayvon Martin: historical contexts and contemporary manifestations of racialdynamicsAuthor: Yancy, GeorgePub Date: 2013Auburn Avenue Research Library: 363.23 PURSUINGRacecraft : the Soul of Inequality in American LifeAuthor: Fields, Karen E.Auburn Avenue Research Library: 305.8 FIELDSPub Date: 2012Authentic Blackness/"real" Blackness : essays on the meaning of Blackness in literatureand cultureAuthor: Japtok, MartinPub Date: 2011Auburn Avenue Research Library: 810.9 AUTHENTICRed, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. AntagonismsAuthor: Wilderson, Frank B.Pub Date: 2010Auburn Avenue Research Library: 791.43 WILDERSONDevelopment and dreams: the urban legacy of the 2010 Football World CupAuthor: Pillay, UdeshPub Date: 2009Auburn Avenue Research Library: 796.334 DEVELOPMENTTo die for the people: the writings of Huey P. NewtonAuthor: Newton, Huey P.Auburn Avenue Research Library: 322.42 NEWTONPub Date: 2009Inventing the "American way": the politics of consensus from the New Deal to the civilrights movementAuthor: Wall, WendyPub Date: 2008Auburn Avenue Research Library: 973.917 WALLAmalgamation schemes: antiblackness and the critique of multiracialismAuthor: Sexton, JaredPub Date: 2008Auburn Avenue Research Library: 305.800973 SEXTONTransnational blackness: navigating the global color lineAuthor: Marable, ManningPub Date: 2008Auburn Avenue Research Library: 305.896 TRANSNATIONALLose your mother: a journey along the Atlantic slave routeAuthor: Hartman, Saidiya V.Pub Date: 2007Auburn Avenue Research Library: 306.362 HARTMAN

Reclaiming heritage: alternative imaginaries of memory in West AfricaAuthor: De Jong, FerdinandPub Date: 2007Auburn Avenue Research Library: 966 RECLAIMINGHaunted Life: Visual Culture and Black ModernityAuthor: Marriott, DavidPub Date: 2007Auburn Avenue Research Library: 302.23 MARRIOTTBlack, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and CultureAuthor: Spillers, Hortense J.Pub Date: 2003Auburn Avenue Research Library: 810.9896 SPILLERSIn the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition.Author: Moten, FredPub Date: 2003Auburn Avenue Research Library: 700 MOTENA map to the door of no return: notes to belongingAuthor: Brand, DionneAuburn Avenue Research Library: B BRANDPub Date: 2001Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power, and the Past in AsanteAuthor: Berry, SaraPub Date: 2000Auburn Avenue Research Library: 966.7 BERRYScenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century AmericaAuthor: Hartman, Saidiya V.Pub Date: 1997Auburn Avenue Research Library: 973.0496 HARTMANOut of America: A Black Man Confronts AfricaAuthor: Richburg, Keith B.Pub Date: 1997Auburn Avenue Research Library: 306.0967 RICHBURGBad faith and anti-black racismAuthor: Gordon, LewisPub Date: 1995Auburn Avenue Research Library: 305.896 GORDONMirage: enigmas of race, difference, and desireAuthor: Fanon, FrantzAuburn Avenue Research Library: 709.04 MIRAGEPub Date: 1995Small acts: thoughts on the politics of Black culturesAuthor: Gilroy, PaulAuburn Avenue Research Library: 305.896 GILROYPub Date: 1993

Slavery and social death : a comparative studyAuthor: Patterson, OrlandoPub Date: 1982Auburn Avenue Research Library: WR 306.362 PATTERSONPersonal Rule in Black Africa: Prince, Autocrat, Prophet, TyrantAuthor: Jackson, Robert H.Pub Date: 1982Auburn Avenue Research Library: WR 320.96 JACKSONAmerica’s Black Past: A Reader in Afro-American HistoryAuthor: Foner, EricPub Date: 1970Auburn Avenue Research Library: WR 973.09 FONERThe Africa that never was; four centuries of British writing about AfricaAuthor: Hammond, DorothyPub Date: 1970Auburn Avenue Research Library: WR 301.29 HAMMONDBlack Skin, White MasksAuthor: Fanon, FrantzAuburn Avenue Research Library: 305.8 FANONPub Date: 1967Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.Pub Date: 1963Auburn Avenue Research Library: WR 973.8 DU BOIS

Electronic Materials and Mixed Medias:A Political Companion to Frederick DouglassAuthor: Roberts, NeilGALILEO ACCESSMigrating the Black Body : The African Diaspora and Visual CultureAuthor: Raiford, Leigh and Raphael-Hernandez, HeikeGALILEO ACCESSBlack Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century AestheticsAuthor: Crawford, Margo NatalieGALILEO ACCESSThe Humanities Between Global Integration and Cultural DiversityAuthor: Kippenberg, Hans G. and Mersmann, BirgitGALILEO ACCESSCanada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking AheadAuthor: Medhora, Rohinton and Samy, YiagadeesenGALILEO ACCESSChinua Achebe's Legacy: Illuminations From AfricaAuthor: Achebe, Chinua and Ogude, JamesGALILEO ACCESSTransnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: Nehl, MarkusGALILEO ACCESSRe-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in the Age of GlobalizationAuthor: Charles Quist-Adade and Wendy RoyalGALILEO ACCESSHandbook of Transatlantic North American StudiesAuthor: Straub, JuliaGALILEO ACCESSDiaspora and Identity in South African FictionAuthor: Jacobs, J.U.GALILEO ACCESS

African Philosophy and Thought Systems: A Search for a Culture and Philosophy ofBelongingAuthor: Mawere, Munyaradzi and Mubaya, Tapuwa R.GALILEO ACCESSImages of Africa : Creation, Negotiation and SubversionAuthor: Mudimbe, V. Y and Gallagher, JuliaGALILEO ACCESSFraming African Development : Challenging ConceptsAuthor: Tobisson, Eva, Virtanen, Tea, Havnevik, Kjell J. and Oestigaard, TerjeGALILEO ACCESSFunk the Erotic : Transaesthetics and Black Sexual CulturesAuthor: Horton-Stallings, LaMondaGALILEO ACCESSTHE DYNAMICS OF AFRICA IN WORLD AFFAIRS: FROM AFRO-PESSIMISM TOAFRO-OPTIMISM?Author: Sharkdam Wapmuk and Oluwatooni AkinkwotuGALILEO ACCESSOn Reason and Afro-PessimismAuthor: Patrick ChabalGALILEO ACCESSIn Defense of Afro-PessimismAuthor: David RieffGALILEO ACCESSThe Other Africa: An End to Afro-PessimismAuthor: Gordon, D. F. and Wolpe, H.GALILEO ACCESSAfrica and the United States of America: A New Kind of Partnership in Today's GlobalizedEnvironment?Author: Sall, MackyGALILEO ACCESS

Lifting as We Climb: #BlackLivesMatter and the Resurrection of Black Studies inAmerica?Author: FINLEY, STEPHEN C., GREEN, DARI, MARTIN, LORI LATRICE and ROVARISSR., DERECK J.GALILEO ACCESSIntegrity of Mission in Light of the Gospel in Africa: A Perspective from an African inDiasporaAuthor: Tiénou, TiteGALILEO ACCESSOntological Terror : Blackness, Nihilism, and EmancipationAuthor: Warren, Calvin L.GALILEO ACCESS

Suggested Search Terms and Keywords:-Afro-pessimism-Anti-blackness and identity politics-Identity politics AND Post-slavery-Black Consciousness AND Identity politics- Diaspora Aesthetics-Diaspora Identities-Black Diaspora Identities AND African Diaspora Identities-Blackness AND social identities-“For the culture”-Race theory-Racial identity AND blackness AND afro-pessimism-Afro-futurism AND diaspora identities AND blackness-Afro-pessimism AND afro-futurism-Critical Africana Studies AND Diaspora Identities-Pan-Africanism AND Diaspora Identities-“Post-Blackness” OR the Pan-African Movement-Black nihilism AND Racial IdentityHow to Use Booleans:Boolean Operators are simple words to maximize search results.Auburn Avenue Research Libraryon African American Culture and HistoryA Special Library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System101 Auburn Avenue, NE Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2503404-613-4001 http://www.afpls.org/aarl

Author: Hammond, Dorothy Pub Date: 1970 Auburn Avenue Research Library: WR 301.29 HAMMOND Black Skin, White Masks Author: Fanon, Frantz Pub Date: 1967 Auburn Avenue Research Library: 305.8 FANON Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 Author: Du Bois, W. E. B. Pub Date: 1963 Auburn Avenue Research Library: WR 973.8 DU BOIS