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Smith, Elijah Smith 2017-06-15T08:36:20Z 2019-06-14T08:30:14Z 2017 https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/82255 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. en Wake Forest University Affect Afropessimism Bernard Sanders Lacan Race Slavery AS BLACKNESS BERNS: AN AFROPESSIMIST READING OF BERNARD SANDERS’ 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ADVERTISEMENT “TOGETHER” Thesis Mitra, Ananda Curry, Tommy J. Communication 2019-06-14 open.access