Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius T-Shirts you can have big feelings

you can have big feelings

Ahmad Daniels

The lessons in this book center around confidence

but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States

Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius T-Shirts you can have big feelingsIn Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He analyzes the works of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Marvin Gaye,