The politics of Black joy: Zora Neale Hurston and neo-abolitionism

Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press (2021)
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In the Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart develops Hurston's contributions to political theory and philosophy of race by introducing the politics of joy as a refusal of neoabolitionism, a political tradition that reduces southern Black life to tragedy or social death.

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B947.A37.S74 2021

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