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Foreword

Jaime Amparo Alves

https://doi.org/10.68382/1coykomrBegins on page 8Published: November 1, 2025

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In this groundbreaking book Osmundo Pinho makes an important contribution to Black Studies transnationally through placing Afro-pessimism in conversation with “Ancestrality,” an important theoretical concept emerging from the field of Black Studies in Brazil. In the book, Pinho argues that social death and ancestry coexist, are in tension, and are both transformations.

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Jaime Amparo Alves. “Foreword.” In Bondage: Anti-Blackness and Ancestrality, Osmundo Pinho, from p. 8. Baltimore, MD: Améfrica Press. https://doi.org/10.68382/1coykomr.

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