Jim Crow Wisdom : Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940 /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Holloway, Jonathan Scott.
Race awareness.
Memory > Sociological aspects.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Psychology.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Psychologie.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Conscience de race > États-Unis.
African Americans > History > 20th century.
Race awareness > United States.
Verenigde Staten.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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