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Philadelphia Freedoms : Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King.

Michael Awkward's Philadelphia Freedoms captures the energetic contestations over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the City of Brotherly Love. Looking closely at four cultural moments, he shows how racial trauma and his native city's history ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Awkward, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Keeping the Past in Lively Memory after King: The Traumatic Implications of Black American Oppression; Chapter 1. ""Philadelphia Did Not Burn"": Quelling Riots and Deferring Hoop Dreams in the Age of the Militant Black Athlete; Chapter 2. Haunted Longings: Nostalgic Black Musical Formulations of Masculinity and the Patriarchal Family; Chapter 3. A ""Genuinely Afro-American Narrative"": Sarah Phillips and the Politics of Black Textual Authenticity; Chapter 4. Screening the (Beloved) Novel: On Oprah WInfrey and the Protocols of Adaptation.
  • Conclusion: No Longer at Home?Notes; References; Index.