Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity

by Ron Eyerman

Book Overview

In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521004373
• ISBN13: 9780521004374
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"