Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 - Couverture rigide

Holloway, Jonathan Scott

 
9781469610702: Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1469610701 ISBN 13 : 9781469610702
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2013

Synopsis

Jim Crow Wisdom "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 ...

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469610701
ISBN 13 
9781469610702
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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Personne responsable
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