Laying Claim - African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity

Explores the practices and cultural institutions that define and sustain African American "southernness," demonstrating that southern identity is more expansive than traditional narratives that center on white culture

About the author

Patricia G. Davis is an assistant professor of communication at Georgia State University.

Summary

Identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Patricia Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory has begun to create a more fluid sense of southernness that welcomes contributions by all of the region's peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia G Davis, Patricia G. Davis
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780817360252
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6025-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics