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Cultural trauma : slavery and the formation of African American identity

Author: Ron Eyerman
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series: Cambridge cultural social studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ron Eyerman
ISBN: 0521808286 9780521808286 0521004373 9780521004374
OCLC Number: 46918010
Description: viii, 302 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Cultural trauma and collective memory --
Re-membering and forgetting --
Out of Africa: the making of a collective identity --
The Harlem Renaissance and the heritage of slavery --
Memory and representation --
Civil rights and black nationalism: the post-war generation.
Series Title: Cambridge cultural social studies.
Responsibility: Ron Eyerman.
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Abstract:

In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a new and compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.

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