Hope draped in black : race, melancholy, and the agony of progress /

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In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress, using African American literature and film to construct an idea of hope that embraces melancholy in order to acknowledge and mourn America's traumatic history.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Winters, Joseph Richard, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
Subjects:
Racism > United States.
African Americans > Race identity.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Race identity
Race relations > Philosophy
Race relations > Political aspects
Racism
United States > Race relations > Philosophy.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Philosophie.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect politique.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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