None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic LifeIt 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 historicisma 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