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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 Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this exploration of race memory from the dawn of...

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Main Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Subjects and Genres:
Holloway, Jonathan Scott.
Race awareness > United States.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Psychology.
African Americans > History > 20th century.
Memory > Sociological aspects.
Narrative non-fiction.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The scars of memory
  • 1. Editing and the art of forgetfulness in social science
  • 2. Memory and racial humiliation in popular literature
  • 3. The Black body as archive of memory
  • 4. Black scholars and memory in the age of Black studies
  • 5. The silences in a civil rights narrative
  • 6. Heritage tourism, museums of horror, and the commerce of memory
  • Epilogue: Memory in the diaspora.

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