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UNINA9910820831603321 |
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Autore |
Eyerman Ron |
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Titolo |
Cultural trauma : slavery and the formation of African American identity / / Ron Eyerman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cmabridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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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 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge cultural social studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Race identity |
Slavery - United States - Psychological aspects |
African Americans - Psychology |
Enslaved persons - United States - Psychology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-298) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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