Hope draped in black: race, melancholy, and the agony of progress
In: The religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
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
