The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810142046)

Despite New Spain's significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of blackness and thinks through how it can be used both to productively unsettle contemporary multicultural and postracial discourses within the United States and to further the interrogations of being and blackness within the larger field of black studies.

Wilson models a practice of reading that honors the disruptive possibilities offered by an ever-present awareness of that which lies, irretrievable, beyond the horizon of vanishing itself. In doing so, he engages with historical accounts detailing maroon activities in early New Spain, contemporary coverage of the push to make legible Afro-Mexican identities, the electronic archives of the Obama presidency, and the work of Carlos de Sig enza y G ngora, Octavio Paz, Ivan Van Sertima, Miguel Covarrubias, Steven Spielberg, and Colson Whitehead, among others.


Author: Ricardo a. Wilson
ISBN-10: 081014204X
ISBN-13: 9780810142046
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2020
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d