ISBN:
9781469610702
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 273 p)
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ill., ports
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Jim Crow Wisdom : Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940
DDC:
305.896/073
Keywords:
Holloway, Jonathan Scott
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African Americans Psychology
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African Americans History 20th century
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Memory Sociological aspects
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Race awareness
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African Americans Race identity
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Race awareness -- United States
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African Americans -- Race identity
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African Americans -- Psychology
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African Americans -- History -- 20th century
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Memory -- Sociological aspects
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Abstract:
"How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade, Holloway explores the stories black Americans have told about their past and why these stories are vital to understanding a modern black identity. In the process, Holloway asks much larger questions about the value of history and facts when memories do violence to both. Making discoveries about his own past while researching this book, Holloway weaves first-person and family memories into the traditional third-person historian's perspective. The result is a highly readable, rich, and deeply personal narrative that will be familiar to some, shocking to others, and thought-provoking to everyone"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Scars of Memory; 1 Editing and the Art of Forgetfulness in Social Science; 2 Memory and Racial Humiliation in Popular Literature; 3 The Black Body as Archive of Memory; 4 Black Scholars and Memory in the Age of Black Studies; 5 The Silences in a Civil Rights Narrative; 6 Heritage Tourism, Museums of Horror, and the Commerce of Memory; EPILOGUE: Memory in the Diaspora; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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