Cultural Trauma
Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
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- Author: Ron Eyerman, Yale University, Connecticut
- Date Published: January 2002
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521004374
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This book 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. Ron Eyerman offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, and provides a new and compelling account of the birth of African-American identity.
Read more- A broad historical perspective
- A theory of African-American identity with universal significance
- Very relevant to contemporary society
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"Slavery has had a significant, long-lasting effect on US history and society. Along with Elizabeth Bethel in ^The Roots of African-American Identity(1997), Eyerman clearly traces this long, sometimes agonizing, process for anyone engaged n serious work on US race relations." Choice
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- Date Published: January 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521004374
- length: 316 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 154 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.507kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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