Jim Crow Wisdom Holloway Jonathan Scott
Jim Crow Wisdom Holloway Jonathan Scott How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? These are some of the questions that Jonathan…
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Jim Crow Wisdom Holloway Jonathan Scott
How do we balance the desire for tales of exceptional accomplishment with the need for painful doses of reality? 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. How hard do we work to remember our past or to forget it?
In the process, Holloway asks much larger questions about the value of history and facts when memories do violence to both.Making discoveries about his own past while researching this book, Holloway weaves first-person and family memories into the traditional third-person historian's perspective. Relying on social science, documentary film, dance, popular literature, museums, memoir, and the tourism trade, Holloway explores the stories black Americans have told about their past and why these stories are vital to understanding a modern black identity.