Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress
by
Joseph R. Winters
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions—like those that suggested the passage into a postracial era following Barack Obama's election—gloss over the history of racial violence and oppression...