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Defining Moments - African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 (Paperback, New edition)
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Defining Moments - African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 (Paperback, New edition)
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A counter-narrative to white historical memory in the South The
historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction has earned
increasing attention from scholars. Only recently, however, have
historians begun to explore African American efforts to interpret
those events. With Defining Moments, Kathleen Ann Clark shines new
light on African American commemorative traditions in the South,
where events such as Emancipation Day and Fourth of July ceremonies
served as opportunities for African Americans to assert their own
understandings of slavery, the Civil War, and Emancipation -
efforts that were vital to the struggles to define, assert, and
defend African American freedom and citizenship. Focusing on urban
celebrations that drew crowds from surrounding rural areas, Clark
finds that commemorations served as critical forums for African
Americans to define themselves collectively. As they struggled to
assert their freedom and citizenship, African Americans wrestled
with issues such as the content and meaning of black history,
class-inflected ideas of respectability and progress, and gendered
notions of citizenship. Clark's examination of the people and
events that shaped complex struggles over public
self-representation in African American communities brings new
understanding of southern black political culture in the decades
following Emancipation and provides a more complete picture of
historical memory in the South.
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