Title:	Cultural Trauma
Other Titles:	Slavery and the formation of African American identity
Authors:	Ron, Eyerman JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
Keywords:	Slavery and the formation of African American identity
Issue Date:	2004
Publisher:	Cambridge
Description:	In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people’s sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War to the civil rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identityformation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a new and compelling account of the birth of African American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism, and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9782
ISBN:	0-511-02933-0
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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