AS BLACKNESS BERNS: AN AFROPESSIMIST READING OF BERNARD SANDERS’ 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENT “TOGETHER”
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- 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.
- subject
- Affect
- Afropessimism
- Bernard Sanders
- Lacan
- Race
- Slavery
- contributor
- Mitra, Ananda (committee chair)
- Curry, Tommy J. (committee member)
- date
- 2017-06-15T08:36:20Z (accessioned)
- 2019-06-14T08:30:14Z (available)
- 2017 (issued)
- degree
- Communication (discipline)
- embargo
- 2019-06-14 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/82255 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- AS BLACKNESS BERNS: AN AFROPESSIMIST READING OF BERNARD SANDERS’ 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENT “TOGETHER”
- type
- Thesis