%0 Journal Article
%T Response to Weddington: More Lessons from Afro
%A Antonia Randolph
%A David Luke
%A Megan Underhill
%A Victor Erik Ray
%J Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
%@ 2332-6506
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2332649218807732
%X In this response to George Weddington¡¯s critique of their recent article, the authors argue that Weddington rightfully critiques them for not paying enough attention to the role of psychoanalysis (exemplified by Frantz Fanon) in Afro-pessimist theory and for not giving primacy to the political ontology of blackness in Afro-pessimist thought. However, his critique is hindered by his mischaracterizing the authors¡¯ argument as saying that black political ontology is merely different, not singular, and his lack of engagement with the authors¡¯ analysis of critical race theory. The authors address these issues and suggest that Weddington¡¯s reading of Afro-pessimist claims as empirically unverifiable is inconsistent with his proposal for incorporating the theory into ethnographic projects and would lead to the abandonment of the sociological project
%K Afro-pessimism
%K critical race theory
%K labor market
%K diversity
%K organization
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332649218807732