Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

by Anthony B. Pinn

In Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to distinguish death from life. This distinction is produced and maintained through the construction of Blackness as deathlife. Drawing on Afropessimism and Black moralism, Pinn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478020601
• ISBN13: 9781478020608
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"