Jim Crow wisdom : memory and identity in Black America since 1940 / Jonathan Scott Holloway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holloway, Jonathan Scott, author.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holloway, Jonathan Scott.

Race awareness--United States.

Race awareness.

African Americans.

History.

United States.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans--Psychology.

African Americans--History--20th century.

Memory--Sociological aspects.

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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 of history and facts when memories do violence to both. Making discoveries about his own past while researching this book, Holloway weaves first-person and family memories into the traditional third-person historian's perspective. The result is a highly readable, rich, and deeply personal narrative that will be familiar to some, shocking to others, and thought-provoking to everyone"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Editing and the Art of Forgetfulness in Social Science 14

2 Memory and Racial Humiliation in Popular Literature 40

3 The Black Body as Archive of Memory 67

4 Black Scholars and Memory in the Age of Black Studies 102

5 The Silences in a Civil Rights Narrative 135

6 Heritage Tourism, Museums of Horror, and the Commerce of Memory 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

856021380

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.