 |


|
 |
Item Details
Title:
|
JIM CROW WISDOM
MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN BLACK AMERICA SINCE 1940 |
By: |
Jonathan Scott Holloway |
Format: |
Paperback |

List price:
|
£35.95 |
Our price: |
£34.87 |
Discount: |
|
You save:
|
£1.08 |
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
1469626411 |
ISBN 13: |
9781469626413 |
Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 3-5 days.
Delivery
rates
|
Stock: |
Currently 1item in stock |
Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 August, 2015 |
Pages: |
288 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Illustrations: |
18 halftones |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |


|

|

|

|

|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.

|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...

|

|

|
|
 |