The Nigrescent Beyond – Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of…

The Nigrescent BeyondMexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness\nAuthor(s): Ricardo A. Wilson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Northwestern University Press, United States\nImprint: Northwestern University Press\nISBN-13: 9780810142046, 978-0810142046\nSynopsis\nDespite New Spains 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.\n\n Wilson models a practice of reading that honors the disruptive possibilities offered by an ever-present awareness.