Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging

Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans' experiences in their autobiographies.

List of contents

Introduction: Relationality, Identification, and the One-Drop Rule
Hospitality, Inheritance, and Collective Memory
Organization
Chapter 1: Haunting and "The new America": Living with Jim Crow
Passing: Spectral Temporality & Surveillance
"home in language": Proprioceptive Subjectivity
Chapter 2: Memorials and Filiality in the Civil Rights Era
"The words to tell the story": Driven to Memorialize
Still Haunted: Postmemory and Place-Memory
Chapter 3: Movement Children: The Post-Soul Generation
"Belonging is my birthright": Being Post-Soul
The Paradox of Hospitality
Conclusion: Considering Genetic Identity
Coda
Bibliography

About the author

Nicole Stamant, author of Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives (Palgrave, 2014), is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Agnes Scott College, where she specializes in Life Writing Studies. She earned her PhD in English from Texas A&M University and her articles have appeared in ARIEL, MELUS, a/b: Auto/Biography, South Central Review, and Studies in Comics among others. She has contributed to a number of edited collections; most recently Consumption and the Literary Cookbook (Routledge 2020). In 2018, she received the Agnes Scott Vulcan Materials Company Teaching Excellence Award.

Summary

Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans’ experiences in their autobiographies.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole Stamant, Stamant Nicole
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032213804
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221380-4
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional