Endless Mourning: Racial Melancholia, Black Grief, and the Transformative Possibilities for Racial Justice in Education
Abstract
In this article, Justin Grinage investigates how black youth experience and contest racial trauma using racial melancholia, a psychoanalytic conception of grief, as a framework for understanding the nonpathologized endurance of black resistance to racism. Examining data from a yearlong ethnographic study, Grinage engages the notion that melancholia is needed for mourning to take place, a crucial distinction that engenders agency in relation to...
Paper Details
Title
Endless Mourning: Racial Melancholia, Black Grief, and the Transformative Possibilities for Racial Justice in Education
Published Date
Jun 1, 2019
Journal
Volume
89
Issue
2
Pages
227 - 250
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