SHAFTSBURY A Shaftsbury author was a finalist for the 2021 Vermont Book Awards. His writing “deals with Mexico and the United States and … ideas of Blackness,” he said.
SHAFTSBURY — A Shaftsbury author was a finalist for the 2021 Vermont Book Awards. His writing “deals with Mexico and the United States and … ideas of Blackness,” he said.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021 Writer’s Discussion Series: Ricardo A. Wilson
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The Nigrescent Beyond:
Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness
Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a Black presence. In
The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes a framework for understanding this psychic vanishing of Blackness and thinks through how it can be used to both productively unsettle contemporary multicultural and post-racial discourses within the United States and further the interrogations of being and Blackness within the larger field of black studies.
Roughly a month ago press began coming out about
Day 6 coffee and its two owners, Ricardo “RJ” Wilson and Jason Ian Wilson. Many of the headlines touted their place as Houston’s first Black-owned coffee shop. The two brothers quickly released a video on their Instagram making sure to clarify any misunderstandings.
“While we are a Black-owned coffee shop, we are not Houston’s first Black-owned coffee shop,” stated Ian Wilson in the video released on the shops Instagram. His brother Ricardo went on to further explain.
“To say we are the first Black-owned coffee shop would be a disservice to the other shops like ThroughGood Coffee and Kaffeine Coffee that have paved the way for us to get downtown and have the success we have had. The credit should be given to them and not taken away from them”