Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0820350826 ISBN 13: 9780820350820

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2017

Riassunto

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection—the first of its kind—invites us to recon­sider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. The 1977 television adaptation was more than a blockbuster miniseries—it was a galvanizing national event, drawing a record-shattering viewership, earning thirty-eight Emmy nominations, and changing overnight the discourse on race, civil rights, and slavery.

These essays—from emerging and established 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 in the United States and abroad. Taken together, the essays ask us to reconsider the limitations and possibilities of this work, which, although dogged by controversy, must be understood as one of the most extraordinary media events of the late twentieth century, a cultural touchstone of enduring significance.

Contributors: Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, Elise Chatelain, Robert K. Chester, Clare Corbould, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Delia Mellis, Francesca Morgan, Tyler D. Parry, Martin Stollery, Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, Bhekuyise Zungu

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Informazioni sull'autore

<b>Erica L. Ball (Editor) </b><br> ERICA L. BALL is a professor of American studies at Occidental College. She is author of <i>To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class</i> (Georgia).<br><br><b>Kellie Carter Jackson (Editor) </b><br> KELLIE CARTER JACKSON is an assistant professor of history at Hunter College, CUNY, and the author of <i>Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence</i>.<br><br>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0820350826
• ISBN 13: 9780820350820
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 234
• Redattore: Ball Erica L., Jackson Kellie Carter
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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