The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2021 Writer’s Discussion Series: Ricardo A. Wilson This event will be presented via Zoom teleconference. Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link. 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.