We need to take on the task of acknowledging racial grief in a theoretically and socially responsible way.A sustained focus on the intangible wounds that form the fissures underneath visible phenomenon of discrimination should be taking place …Racial melancholy is both the technology and the nightmare of the American dream.

Adapted from : The Melancholy Of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and HIdden Grief ~ Anne Alin Cheng