In Afropessimism, award-winning author, poet, and scholar Frank B. Wilderson III draws from autobiographical stories as well as works of philosophy, literature, film, and critical theory as he looks at Blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. As he discusses how race seems to color almost every feature of our moral and political universe, Wilderson also wonders why anti-Black violence remains such a predominant feature of day-to-day society, not only in the United States, but around the world. He is speaking with his editor, Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing director of publishing imprint W.W. Norton/Liveright.
