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Jim Crow Wisdom - Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940 (Paperback)
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Jim Crow Wisdom - Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940 (Paperback)
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How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional
accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? How hard
do we work to remember our past or to forget it? These are some of
the questions that Jonathan Scott Holloway addresses in this
exploration of race memory from the dawn of the modern civil rights
era to the present. Relying on social science, documentary film,
dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade,
Holloway explores the stories black Americans have told about their
past and why these stories are vital to understanding a modern
black identity. In the process, Holloway asks much larger questions
about the value of history and facts when memories do violence to
both. Making discoveries about his own past while researching this
book, Holloway weaves first-person and family memories into the
traditional third-person historian's perspective. The result is a
highly readable, rich, and deeply personal narrative that will be
familiar to some, shocking to others, and thought-provoking to
everyone.
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