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

• Autore: Eyerman Ron
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 305.896/073
• Soggetto topico: African Americans - Race identity; Slavery - United States - Psychological aspects; African Americans - Psychology; Slaves - United States - Psychology
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural trauma
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455077103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge cultural social studies.