In this Book
- Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- 3. The Black Body as Archive of Memory
- pp. 67-101
- 5. The Silences in a Civil Rights Narrative
- pp. 135-173
- Epilogue: Memory in the Diaspora
- pp. 214-230
- Bibliography
- pp. 251-268
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469612546
Related ISBN(s)
9781469610702, 9781469610719, 9781469626413
MARC Record
OCLC
856021380
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No