Description: Kobena Mercer shows how Black artists transformed the visual meanings of Blackness under modernity across the twentieth century.
Review Quotes: "Kobena Mercer expertly argues for the aesthetic agency of Afromodernism throughout the long twentieth century. In lucid, exacting, surprising prose, Mercer reorients the New Black Art History towards a reckoning with Afromodernism's pasts, presents and futures. Afromodernism confirms what many of us have known since first encountering his writing in the 1980s: Kobena Mercer is one of the truly great thinkers of our monstrous times."--Kodwo Eshun, author of, More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction