In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations …
Content warning CW: Afropessimism, Black humanity
The suffering of Black people cannot be analogized; 'we' are not all claimed by life in the same way; 'we' do not experience suffering on the same plain of conflict, since the Black is characterized, as Wilderson tells us, by gratuitious violence.
— In the wake : on Blackness and being by Christina Sharpe (Page 29)