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Defining moments [[electronic resource] ] : African American commemoration & political culture in the South, 1863-1913 / / Kathleen Ann Clark



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Autore: Clark Kathleen Ann Visualizza persona
Titolo: Defining moments [[electronic resource] ] : African American commemoration & political culture in the South, 1863-1913 / / Kathleen Ann Clark Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
Disciplina: 975/.00496073
Soggetto topico: African Americans - Southern States - Anniversaries, etc
Slaves - Emancipation - United States - Anniversaries, etc
African Americans - History - 1863-1877
African Americans - History - 1877-1964
African Americans - Southern States - Politics and government
Political culture - Southern States - History - 19th century
Political culture - Southern States - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Politics and government 1865-1950
Southern States Race relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-294) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Language that cannot be misunderstood : African American commemoration, 1863-1913 -- The vanguard of liberty must look into the past : celebrations of freedom -- A resurrection of manhood : gendered reconstruction -- Has emancipation been a failure? : the end of Reconstruction -- Signs of the times : making progress in the post-Reconstruction South -- Bosoms filled with hope : collective representation in the age of Jim Crow.
Sommario/riassunto: The historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret those events. With Defining Moments, Kathleen Clark shines new light on African American commemorative traditions in the South, where events such as Emancipation Day and Fourth of July ceremonies served as opportunities for African Americans to assert their own understandings of slavery, the Civil War, and Emancipation--efforts that were vital to the struggles to define, assert, and defend
Titolo autorizzato: Defining moments  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-7680-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910451956603321
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