Hope draped in black : race, melancholy, and the agony of progress / Joseph R. Winters.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Winters, Joseph Richard, 1977- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:	Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
Subjects:	Racism > United States. African Americans > Race identity. Race relations > Philosophy. Race relations > Political aspects. Racism. United States > Race relations > Philosophy. United States > Race relations > Political aspects. United States.
Physical Description:	xi, 304 pages .
Format:	Book

Contents:

Unreconciled strivings: Du Bois, the seduction of optimism, and the legacy of sorrow
Unhopeful but not hopeless: melancholic interpretations of freedom and progress
Hearing the breaks and cuts of history: Ellison, Morrison, and the uses of literary jazz
Reel progress: race, film, and cinematic melancholy
Figures of the postracial: race, nation, and violence in the age of Obama and Morrison.