As Blackness Berns: an Afropessimist Reading of Bernard Sanders’ 2016 Presidential Campaign Advertisement “together”
Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis evaluates Bernard Sanders’ viral 2016 Presidential campaign advertisement Together using O’Connor’s theory of Moving-Image Documents. The image-documents are then used to perform a “structural” reading of the advertisement via the emerging literature on Afropessimism to determine why supporters of Sanders created such a powerful and loyal collective and his proposed revolution against the 1% is ethical and possible. I conclude that his supporters created affective community in response to Sanders’ multicultural ethos and that his revolution is in fact anti-black. Using the psychoanalytic theories of Afropessimism I also find the affective communities participate in the libidinal economy of antiblackness because of the psychic relief that participation brings.
Author: Smith, Elijah Smith
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7007945271