None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

by Stephen Best

It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a "we" at the point of "our" violent origin. Best argues that there is and can be no "we" following from such a time and place,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147800150X
• ISBN13: 9781478001508
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary