Reconsidering roots : race, politics, and memory / edited by Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson ; [Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.].

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TextLanguage: eng Series: Since 1970: Histories of contemporary America | Since 1970Publisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2017Description: xviii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

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9780820350820 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820350826 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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791.45/72

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PN 1992.77 R311 2017

Summary: These essays -- from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies -- interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

These essays -- from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies -- interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.

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