Cultural Trauma - Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity

Informationen zum Autor Ronald Eyerman is the holder of the Segerstedt Chair of Sociology, and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University (1900–2000). His recent publications include Music and Social Movements (Cambridge, 1998). Klappentext Ron Eyerman explores the formation of African American identity through the cultural trauma of slavery. Zusammenfassung In this book! Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the cultural trauma of slavery. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cultural trauma and collective memory; 2. Remembering and forgetting; 3. Out of Africa; 4. The black public sphere and the heritage of slavery; 5. Memory and representation; 6. Civil rights and black nationalism; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Eyerman, Ron (Uppsala Universitet Eyerman
• Assisted by: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Editor), Steven Seidman (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2001
• EAN: 9780521004374
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00437-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Stud; Cambridge Cultural Social Stud
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore