img Leseprobe Leseprobe

Long Past Slavery

Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project

Catherine A. Stewart

EPUB
ca. 21,99
Amazon iTunes Thalia.de Weltbild.de Hugendubel Bücher.de ebook.de kobo Osiander Google Books Barnes&Noble bol.com Legimi yourbook.shop Kulturkaufhaus ebooks-center.de
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Hinweis: Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.

The University of North Carolina Press img Link Publisher

Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945

Beschreibung

From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories of bondage, emancipation, and life as freedpeople were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society. Stewart demonstrates how project administrators, such as the folklorist John Lomax; white and black interviewers, including Zora Neale Hurston; and the ex-slaves themselves fought to shape understandings of black identity. She reveals that some influential project employees were also members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, intent on memorializing the Old South. Stewart places ex-slaves at the center of debates over black citizenship to illuminate African Americans' struggle to redefine their past as well as their future in the face of formidable opposition.

By shedding new light on a critically important episode in the history of race, remembrance, and the legacy of slavery in the United States, Stewart compels readers to rethink a prominent archive used to construct that history.

Weitere Titel von diesem Autor
Catherine A. Stewart
Catherine A. Stewart

Kundenbewertungen

Schlagwörter

anthropology, folk musicians, American Guide, Dies, Martin, Brown, Sterling, African American identity, Civil Rights struggles, Black Music, Dies Committee, HUAC, African American citizenship, Corse, Carita Doggett, african american music, black identity, Black Vernacular, racial theories, african american retentions, Boas, Franz, Confederate memory, the long Civil Rights movement, African American historiography, Dialect, folk music, African American and the Civil Rights Movement, african american survivals, african american oral traditions, Negro dialect, Civil War memory, Davis, John P., Drums and Shadows: Survival Stories Among, dialect writing, mentor to zora neale hurston, Authentic or Authenticity, Botkin, Benjamin, African American culture, Black Speech, Alsberg, Henry