Laying Claim : African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity / Patricia G. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Patricia G. (Patricia Gail), 1970- author.

Series:

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Southern States.

Collective memory.

White people--Race identity--Southern States.

White people.

African Americans--Race identity--Southern States.

African Americans.

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the practices and cultural institutions that define and sustain African American "southernness," demonstrating that southern identity is more expansive than traditional narratives that center on white culture In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity , Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central.

Contents:

Cultural memory and African American southern identity: an introduction

Ghosts of Nat Turner: African American Civil War reenactment and the performance of historical agency, citizenship, and masculinity

So that the dead may finally speak: space, place, and the transformational rhetoric of Black history museums

From old south to new media: museum informatics, narrative, and the production of critical history

Conclusion: southern identities in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-8999-7

OCLC:

951749539