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Works explicitly arguing, contra- or post- Patterson, for the more expansive/enduring version(s) of the notion of social death characteristic of Afropessimism? (lemmygrad.ml)
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I'm currently working through Orlando Patterson's Slavery and Social Death. Wikipedia says

Orlando Patterson's book Slavery and Social Death, first published in 1982, forms a theoretical point of departure for almost all strands of Afro-pessimism.

but also notes that according to Patterson, his concept/definition of social death doesn't apply to contemporary black life in the USA.

What should I read next to understand the Afropessimist arguments that Patterson's conception of social death is too narrow, etc.?

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