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African Americans History 20th century African Americans Psychology African Americans Race identity BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage Chicago (Ill.) Race relations History 20th century Anecdotes HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Holloway, Jonathan Scott Memory Sociological aspects Race awareness United States SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American StudiesJefferson, Margo
Summary: "At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFHolloway, Jonathan Scott.
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2013