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Been coming through some hard times : race, history, and memory in western Kentucky / Jack Glazier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glazier, Jack.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Kentucky--Hopkinsville--History.
- Racism.
- Collective memory--Kentucky--Hopkinsville.
- Collective memory.
- African Americans--Kentucky--Hopkinsville--History.
- African Americans.
- White people--Kentucky--Hopkinsville--History.
- White people.
- Racism--Kentucky--Christian County--History.
- Collective memory--Kentucky--Christian County.
- African Americans--Kentucky--Christian County--History.
- White people--Kentucky--Christian County--History.
- Hopkinsville (Ky.)--Race relations--History.
- Hopkinsville (Ky.).
- Christian County (Ky.)--Race relations--History.
- Christian County (Ky.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book is a unique study of race and racism across two centuries in the hinterland of the upper South. Its implications are at once depressingly familiar and distinctly fresh." -W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930From the earliest days when slaves were brought to western Kentucky, the descendants of both slaves and slave owners in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, have continued to inhabit the same social and historic space. Part ethnography and part historical narrative, Been Coming through Some Hard Times offers a penetrating look
- Contents:
- County and town : race and a usable past
- Slavery, the terror of imagination, and exiled freedom in Liberia
- Inscriptions of freedom : the making of an African American community
- Free but not equal
- The enactment of memory : monuments, cemeteries, reunions
- Civil rights and beyond.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299384651
- 129938465X
- 9781572339781
- 1572339780
- OCLC:
- 836405889
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