Been Coming through Some Hard Times : Race, History, and Memory in Western Kentucky /

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This book is a study of race and racism across two centuries in the hinterland of the upper South. Its implications are at once depressingly familiar and distinctly fresh. From the earliest days when slaves were brought to western Kentucky, the descendants of both slaves and slave owners in Hopkinsv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glazier, Jack
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2012]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
White people.
Racism.
Race relations.
Collective memory.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Blancs > Kentucky > Christian > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Kentucky > Christian > Histoire.
Memoire collective > Kentucky > Christian.
Racisme > Kentucky > Christian > Histoire.
White people > Kentucky > Christian County > History.
African Americans > Kentucky > Christian County > History.
Collective memory > Kentucky > Christian County.
Racism > Kentucky > Christian County > History.
White people > Kentucky > Hopkinsville > History.
African Americans > Kentucky > Hopkinsville > History.
Collective memory > Kentucky > Hopkinsville.
Racism > Kentucky > Hopkinsville > History.
Kentucky > Hopkinsville.
Kentucky > Christian County.
Christian County (Ky.) > Race relations > History.
Hopkinsville (Ky.) > Race relations > History.
Festschriften.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • County and town : race and a usable past
  • Slavery, the terror of imagination, and exiled freedom in Liberia
  • Inscriptions of freedom : the making of an African American community
  • Free but not equal
  • The enactment of memory : monuments, cemeteries, reunions
  • Civil rights and beyond.

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