Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940

by Jonathan Scott Holloway

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469610701
• ISBN13: 9781469610702
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"