Defining moments [[electronic resource] ] : African American commemoration & political culture in the South, 1863-1913 / / Kathleen Ann Clark
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Clark Kathleen Ann
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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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| 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 |
| Enslaved persons - 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 | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908742-8-3 |
| 0-8078-7680-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777527003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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