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Defining moments : African American commemoration & political culture in the South, 1863-1913 / Kathleen Ann Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Kathleen Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Southern States--Anniversaries, etc.
- African Americans.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--Anniversaries, etc.
- Enslaved persons.
- African Americans--History--1863-1877.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- African Americans--Southern States--Politics and government.
- Political culture--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Political culture.
- Political culture--Southern States--History--20th century.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret those events. With Defining Moments, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemorative traditions in the South, where events such as Emancipation Day and Fourth of July ceremonies served as opportunities for African Americans to assert their own understandings of slavery, the Civil War, and Emancipation--efforts that were vital to the struggles to define, assert, and defend
- Contents:
- Language that cannot be misunderstood : African American commemoration, 1863-1913
- The vanguard of liberty must look into the past : celebrations of freedom
- A resurrection of manhood : gendered reconstruction
- Has emancipation been a failure? : the end of Reconstruction
- Signs of the times : making progress in the post-Reconstruction South
- Bosoms filled with hope : collective representation in the age of Jim Crow.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890874283
- 9780807876800
- 0807876801
- OCLC:
- 70145176
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