Cultural Trauma

Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity

AvRon Eyerman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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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 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 compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-12-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521808286

Utforska kategorier

Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi

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Ronald Eyerman is the holder of the Segerstedt Chair of Sociology, and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University (1900–2000). His recent publications include Music and Social Movements (Cambridge, 1998).

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'The international social-scientific readership is by now trained to expect from Ron Eyerman research of the highest calibre and an above average quantity of insights and original observations … and the reader won't be disappointed … In this book, as in previous books, Eyerman explores a well-travelled ground but brings from his expedition findings which make it not seem to have been familiar at all. Eyerman has chosen to investigate trauma as a factor of identity formation and for that reason the importance of his findings reaches far beyond the challenging task of understanding African-American history. Trauma, genuine or retrospectively construed, processed by the sieve of intellectually recycled memo, acquires in the age of brand new and newly reawakened nationalisms, a truly universal significance.' Zygmuunt Baumann, Leeds University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Cultural trauma and collective memory; 2. Remembering and forgetting; 3. Out of Africa; 4. The black public sphere and the heritage of slavery; 5. Memory and representation; 6. Civil rights and black nationalism; References; Index.

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Lisa Eklund, Bo Isenberg, Per Becker, Kalle Berggren, Micael Björk, Christofer Edling, Hedvig Ekerwald, Emma Engdahl, Johanna Esseveld, Ron Eyerman, Colm Flaherty, Johan Fornäs, Carl-Göran Heidegren, Antoinette Hetzler, Kerstin Jacobsson, Magnus Karlsson, Anna-Lisa Lindén, Henrik Lundberg, Sanja Magdalenic, Vessela Misheva, Marcus Persson, Anton Törnberg, Per Wisselgren