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Works explicitly arguing, contra- or post- Patterson, for the more expansive/enduring version(s) of the notion of social death characteristic of Afropessimism?

I'm currently working through Orlando Patterson's Slavery and Social Death. Wikipedia says

Orlando Patterson's book Slavery and Social Death, first published in 1982, forms a theoretical point of departure for almost all strands of Afro-pessimism.

but also notes that according to Patterson, his concept/definition of social death doesn't apply to contemporary black life in the USA.

What should I read next to understand the Afropessimist arguments that Patterson's conception of social death is too narrow, etc.?

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