Jim Crow Wisdom : Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940 Jonathan Scott Holloway

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holloway, Jonathan Scott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holloway, Jonathan Scott.

Race awareness--United States.

Race awareness.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

African Americans--Psychology.

African Americans--History--20th century.

Memory--Sociological aspects.

Memory.

Local Subjects:

Holloway, Jonathan Scott.

Genre:

Narrative non-fiction.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

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:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

ISBN:

9781469610702

1469610701

9781469626413

1469626411

OCLC:

838415618

Publisher Number:

40022775427