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Joseph Winters

Joseph Winters is an assistant professor of Religious Studies with a secondary position in the Department of African and African American Studies. Winters' first book, Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress (Duke University Press, June 2016) examines how black literature and aesthetic practices challenge post-racial fantasies and triumphant accounts of freedom.

Archive, BooksFebruary 1, 2017

Reports of the Black Church’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated: A Review of Walter Fluker’s Latest Book

By Joseph Winters

In response to the kinds of shifts that have occasioned the post-racial fantasy, Fluker encourages us to think beyond the dominant tropes associated with black Christianity.

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Archive, Books, RD10QOctober 28, 2016

The Audacity of Melancholy: Race, Tragedy, and the Anguish of Progress

By Joseph Winters

In this RD10Q, Joseph Winters explores a new interpretation of hope that makes space for black melancholy and vulnerability.

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(A)theologies, Archive, CultureSeptember 22, 2016

How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride

By Joseph Winters

Last night, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during a press conference,…

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