Behind the big house : reconciling slavery, race, and heritage in the U.S. South / Jodi Skipper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skipper, Jodi, author.

Series:

Humanities and public life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Mississippi.

Historic sites--Mississippi--Educational aspects.

Historic sites.

African Americans--History--Study and teaching--Mississippi.

African Americans.

Plantations--History--Study and teaching--Mississippi.

Plantations.

Slavery--History--Study and teaching--Mississippi.

Slavery.

Heritage tourism--Mississippi.

Heritage tourism.

University of Mississippi--Faculty--Biography.

History.

Mississippi.

African Americans--Study and teaching.

Race relations.

Slavery--Study and teaching.

Behind the Big House (Program).

Skipper, Jodi.

Mississippi--Race relations.

Holly Springs (Miss.).

Mississippi--Holly Springs.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 218 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Reconciling slavery, race, and heritage in the U.S. South

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]

Summary:

"When residents and tourists visit plantation sites, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people and making it impossible for their descendants to process the meanings of these sites. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind the scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. The book explores Jodi Skipper's eight-year collaboration with the Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used at local historic sites around the country to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture. Part memoir and part ethnography, the book interweaves Skipper's experiences as a Black woman and a southerner to imagine more sustainable and healthy spaces for interracial collaborations around historic preservation and slavery tourism in the U.S. South. Skipper considers the growing need among professional and lay communities to address slavery and its impacts through interpretations of local historic sites. In laying out her experiences through an autoethnographic approach, Skipper seeks to help other activist scholars of color negotiate the nuances of place, the academic public sphere, and its ambiguous systems of reward, recognition, and evaluation. By directly speaking to a failed integration of teaching, research, and service as a crisis in academia, she strives not to give others answers, but to model another way of being"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Thank You, Cousin Geneva!

2. Heritage Tourism in Mississippi

3. The Behind the Big House Program

4. Reconciling Race

5. Academic Values and Public Scholarship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Skipper, Jodi, 1976- Behind the big house

ISBN:

9781609388171

1609388178

OCLC:

1273929198

Publisher Number:

99990035040