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Race and Reunion - The Civil War in American Memory (Paperback, Revised)
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Race and Reunion - The Civil War in American Memory (Paperback, Revised)
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List price R803
Loot Price R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
You Save R227 (28%)
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln
Prize Winner of the Merle Curti award Winner of the Frederick
Douglass Prize No historical event has left as deep an imprint on
America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's
aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past.
David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and
forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and
America's national reunion.In 1865, confronted with a ravaged
landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and
painful process of reconciliation. The ensuing decades witnessed
the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional
division and emphasized the heroics of a battle between noble men
of the Blue and the Gray. Nearly lost in national culture were the
moral crusades over slavery that ignited the war, the presence and
participation of African Americans throughout the war, and the
promise of emancipation that emerged from the war. Race and Reunion
is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased
through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the
Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death
and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of
literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost
Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of
African-American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to
preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built
on its denial. Blight's sweeping narrative of triumph and tragedy,
romance and realism, is a compelling tale of the politics of
memory, of how a nation healed from civil war without justice. By
the early twentieth century, the problems of race and reunion were
locked in mutual dependence, a painful legacy that continues to
haunt us today.
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