Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress
In: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
In: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Ser
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
