None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic LifeIt 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 historicisma 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, that black

violence in the home and in the streets

the near defeat of Ethiopia’s American-backed army

guided by the following research objectives: One

dreams will be realized

Afia evokes the women’s lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory

He pays close attention to the fractures

Night Wraith becomes the hero of the oppressed

An intimate photographic exploration of the ways Black barber shops operate as sites for the cultivation of Black male identity and wellness Growing up

Cody Vincini

Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—explains why the horrific attack of Oct 7 and Israel’s just response changes everything

Guadeloupe

discovers a way to travel into the future