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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455077103321

Autore

Eyerman Ron

Titolo

Cultural trauma : slavery and the formation of African American identity / / Ron Eyerman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12474-3

0-511-32891-5

0-511-04462-3

0-511-48878-5

1-280-42144-4

0-521-80828-6

0-511-15582-4

0-511-17546-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge cultural social studies

Disciplina

305.896/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Race identity

Slavery - United States - Psychological aspects

African Americans - Psychology

Slaves - United States - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.