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Jim Crow wisdom : memory and identity in Black America since 1940 /

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 the author addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holloway, Jonathan Scott (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Scars of Memory
  • Editing and the Art of Forgetfulness in Social Science
  • Memory and Racial Humiliation in Popular Literature
  • The Black Body as Archive of Memory
  • Black Scholars and Memory in the Age of Black Studies
  • The Silences in a Civil Rights Narrative
  • Heritage Tourism, Museums of Horror, and the Commerce of Memory
  • Epilogue : Memory in the Diaspora.