How Long to Read None Like Us

How Long Does it Take to Read None Like Us?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 36 minutes to read None Like Us by Stephen Best

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls “melancholy historicism”—a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed toward the recovery of a “we” at the point of “our” violent origin. Best argues that there is and can be no “we” following from such a time and place, that black identity is constituted in and through negation, taking inspiration from David Walker’s prayer that “none like us may ever live again until time shall be no more.” Best draws out the connections between a sense of impossible black sociality and strains of negativity that have operated under the sign of queer. In None Like Us the art of El Anatsui and Mark Bradford, the literature of Toni Morrison and Gwendolyn Brooks, even rumors in the archive, evidence an apocalyptic aesthetics, or self-eclipse, which opens the circuits between past and present and thus charts a queer future for black study.

How long is None Like Us?

None Like Us by Stephen Best is 209 pages long, and a total of 54,131 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read None Like Us Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 55 minutes to read None Like Us aloud.

What Reading Level is None Like Us?

None Like Us is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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