Laying claim : African American cultural memory and southern identity /
"In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulti...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
2016.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780817389994 0817389997 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cultural memory and African American southern identity: an introduction
- Ghosts of Nat Turner: African American Civil War reenactment and the performance of historical agency, citizenship, and masculinity
- So that the dead may finally speak: space, place, and the transformational rhetoric of Black history museums
- From old south to new media: museum informatics, narrative, and the production of critical history
- Conclusion: southern identities in the twenty-first century.