History And Memory In African American Culture

Author : Genevieve Fabre,Robert O'Meally
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198024552

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History and Memory in African-American Culture by Genevieve Fabre,Robert O'Meally Pdf

As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan. The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this volume, a group of leading scholars has come together to examine the role of historical consciousness and imagination in African-American culture. The result is a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in literature, art, oral documents, and performances. Each of the scholars represented has chosen a different "site of memory"--from a variety of historical and geographical points, and from different ideological, theoretical, and artistic perspectives. Yet the book is unified by a common concern with the construction of an emerging African-American cultural memory. The renowned group of contributors, including Hazel Carby, Werner Sollors, Vèvè Clark, Catherine Clinton, and Nellie McKay, among others, consists of participants of the five-year series of conferences at the DuBois Institute at Harvard University, from which this collection originated. Conducted under the leadership of Geneviève Fabre, Melvin Dixon, and the late Nathan Huggins, the conferences--and as a result, this book--represent something of a cultural moment themselves, and scholars and students of American and African-American literature and history will be richer as a result.

Author : Jack Salzman,David L. Smith,Cornel West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:49015002856178

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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History by Jack Salzman,David L. Smith,Cornel West Pdf

Author : Deborah Willis
Publisher : Hylas Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015060885749

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Family History Memory by Deborah Willis Pdf

Deborah Willis has produced a work that is a celebration of African-American life, identity and history. Insightful and profound essays and photographs reveal the strength and cohesion of African-Americans and their dauntless struggles for self-expression and survival.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0312218362

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The Roots of African-American Identity by NA NA Pdf

Spanning the eight decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, The Roots of African-American Identity focuses on the lives of African Americans in the nominally free northern and western states. This book explores how a group of marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity that informed popular African American historical consciousness. Elizabeth Rauh Bethel examines the way in which that consciousness fueled collective efforts to claim and live a promised but undelivered democratic freedom, helping readers to understand how African Americans reformulated and perceived their collective past. Bethel also reveals how this vision of freedom and historical consciousness shaped African American participation in the Reconstruction, formed the spiritual and ideological foundation for the modern Pan-African movement, and provided the historical legacy for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Comprehensive and engaging, The Roots of African-American Identity is an absorbing account of an often overlooked part of American history.

Author : Jacob U'Mofe Gordon,Paul Ortiz
Publisher : Library Press at Uf
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944455159

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African American Studies by Jacob U'Mofe Gordon,Paul Ortiz Pdf

African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida provides an impactful overview of African American Studies; documents the research of Black faculty at UF; examines how African American Studies encourages community engagement and service; contains testimonies from community elders; and includes reflections by and about prominent UF alumni such as Judge Stephan Mickle and Dr. David Horne.

Author : Genevieve Fabre Professor of American Literature University of Paris,Robert O'Meally Professor of English and African-American Studies Columbia University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195359244

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History and Memory in African-American Culture by Genevieve Fabre Professor of American Literature University of Paris,Robert O'Meally Professor of English and African-American Studies Columbia University Pdf

As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan. The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this volume, a group of leading scholars has come together to examine the role of historical consciousness and imagination in African-American culture. The result is a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in literature, art, oral documents, and performances. Each of the scholars represented has chosen a different "site of memory"--from a variety of historical and geographical points, and from different ideological, theoretical, and artistic perspectives. Yet the book is unified by a common concern with the construction of an emerging African-American cultural memory. The renowned group of contributors, including Hazel Carby, Werner Sollors, Veve Clark, Catherine Clinton, and Nellie McKay, among others, consists of participants of the five-year series of conferences at the DuBois Institute at Harvard University, from which this collection originated. Conducted under the leadership of Genevieve Fabre, Melvin Dixon, and the late Nathan Huggins, the conferences--and as a result, this book--represent something of a cultural moment themselves, and scholars and students of American and African-American literature and history will be richer as a result.

Author : James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595587442

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Slavery and Public History by James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton Pdf

“A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online). In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of slavery, this unique collection of essays looks at recent controversies that have played out in the public arena, with contributions by such noted historians as Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, and Gary B. Nash. From the cancellation of the Library of Congress’s “Back of the Big House” slavery exhibit at the request of the institution’s African American employees, who found the visual images of slavery too distressing, to the public reaction to DNA findings confirming Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his slave Sally Hemings, Slavery and Public History takes on contemporary reactions to the fundamental contradiction of American history—the existence of slavery in a country dedicated to freedom—and offers a bracing analysis of how Americans choose to remember the past, and how those choices influence our politics and culture. “Americans seem perpetually surprised by slavery—its extent (North as well as South), its span (over half of our four centuries of Anglo settlement), and its continuing influence. The wide-ranging yet connected essays in [this book] will help us all to remember and understand.” —James W. Loewen, author of Sundown Towns

Author : Frank Wilker
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African diaspora in literature
ISBN : 3825361926

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Cultural Memories of Origin by Frank Wilker Pdf

'Cultural Memories of Origin' focuses on how the second maritime leg of the African slave trade - commonly referred to as the Middle Passage - is represented in select literary and artistic works of African American culture. The book analyses several discursive, aesthetic and political shifts in the memory production about the transatlantic slave trade and discusses their ramifications for the construction of black identity in the U.S. Given the deracinating nature that the middle passage experience had on African subjects, as well as the representational difficulties in portraying this rupture, the book's analytical framework incorporates theories of trauma. By addressing the productive contrast and the methodological differences that exist in between what is in general deemed "historical scholarship" on the one hand and "cultural memory" on the other, the book contributes to the ongoing discussion about the possibility of an involuntary inheritability of traumatic events.

Author : Mary Frances Berry,John W. Blassingame
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0195029100

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Long Memory by Mary Frances Berry,John W. Blassingame Pdf

This powerful, provocative survey is organized around the key issues of Afro-American history: Africa and slavery, family, religion, sex and racism, politics, economics, education, criminal justice, discrimination and protest movements, and black nationalism.

Author : Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588344427

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Living In, Living Out by Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Pdf

This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, DC in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living In, Living Out Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked for wealthy white families. These women describe how they encountered—but never accepted—the master-servant relationship, and recount their struggles to change their status from “live in” servants to daily paid workers who “lived out.” With candor and passion, the women interviewed tell of leaving their families and adjusting to city life “up North,” of being placed as live-in servants, and of the frustrations and indignities they endured as domestics. By networking on the job, at churches, and at penny savers clubs, they found ways to transform their unending servitude into an employer-employee relationship—gaining a new independence that could only be experienced by living outside of their employers' homes. Clark-Lewis points out that their perseverance and courage not only improved their own lot but also transformed work life for succeeding generations of African American women. A series of in-depth vignettes about the later years of these women bears poignant witness to their efforts to carve out lives of fulfillment and dignity.

Author : Renee Christine Romano,Leigh Raiford
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820328140

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The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory by Renee Christine Romano,Leigh Raiford Pdf

The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over the movement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past two decades. How the civil rights movement is currently being remembered in American politics and culture--and why it matters--is the common theme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection. Memories of the movement are being created and maintained--in ways and for purposes we sometimes only vaguely perceive--through memorials, art exhibits, community celebrations, and even street names. At least fifteen civil rights movement museums have opened since 1990; Mississippi Burning, Four Little Girls, and The Long Walk Home only begin to suggest the range of film and television dramatizations of pivotal events; corporations increasingly employ movement images to sell fast food, telephones, and more; and groups from Christian conservatives to gay rights activists have claimed the civil rights mantle. Contests over the movement's meaning are a crucial part of the continuing fight against racism and inequality. These writings look at how civil rights memories become established as fact through museum exhibits, street naming, and courtroom decisions; how our visual culture transmits the memory of the movement; how certain aspects of the movement have come to be ignored in its "official" narrative; and how other political struggles have appropriated the memory of the movement. Here is a book for anyone interested in how we collectively recall, claim, understand, and represent the past.

Author : Mabel O. Wilson
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781588345691

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Begin with the Past by Mabel O. Wilson Pdf

Rising on the National Mall next to the Washington Monument, the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a tiered bronze beacon inviting everyone to learn about the richness and diversity of the African American experience and how it helped shape this nation. Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture is the story of how this unparalleled museum found its place in the nation’s collective memory and on its public commons. Begin with the Past presents the long history of efforts to build a permanent place to collect, study, and present African American history and culture. In 2003 the museum was officially established at long last, yet the work of the museum was only just beginning. The book traces the appointment of the director, the selection of the site, and the process of conceiving, designing, and constructing a public monument to the achievements and contributions of African Americans. The careful selection of architects, designers, and engineers culminated in a museum that embodies African American sensibilities about space, form, and material and incorporates rich cultural symbols into the design of the building and its surrounding landscape. The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a place for all Americans to understand our past and embrace our future, and this book is a testament to the inspiration and determination that went into creating this unique place.

Author : Badia Ahad-Legardy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052552

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Afro-Nostalgia by Badia Ahad-Legardy Pdf

As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories. Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, she reveals nostalgia’s capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments. Original and provocative, Afro-Nostalgia offers black historical pleasure as a remedy to contend with the disillusionment of the present and the traumas of the past.

Author : Silvia del Pilar Castro Borrego
Publisher : Universidad Almería
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788482402581

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History, memory, recovery and representation in contemporary fiction by african american women writers by Silvia del Pilar Castro Borrego Pdf

Author : Lindiwe Lester,Sondai Lester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734482605

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Connections Remembered, the African Origins of Humanity and Civilization by Lindiwe Lester,Sondai Lester Pdf

The central theme of Connections Remembered is the ancient African origins of humanity and civilization, framed around the impact of these historical hallmarks on healthy Black identity development. It is an easy-to-read, yet scientifically validated account of the remarkable accomplishments of ancient Africa and her people. This new edition emphasizes the inextricable linkage between Black self-concept and what Black people are taught through the Eurocentric curricula's expression of African Americans' historical roots. It debunks the flawed and psychically devastating view that Black people's beginnings were as dehumanized plantation slaves. It is written for adults and is concerned with augmenting the education of Black children in American schools especially during their identity-shaping formative years. The book reconnects African and African American history as one continuous narrative, not two disconnected stories; this is key to overcoming our fragmented inner selves and restoring healthy communities. Maps, charts, suggested activities and thought starters are included in each of the eight sections to better engage with the content.