Reconsidering roots : race, politics, and memory
Record details
- ISBN: 9780820350837
- ISBN: 9780820350820
- ISBN: 0820350834
- ISBN: 0820350826
- ISBN: 9780820350844
- ISBN: 0820350842
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 211 pages) : illustrations.
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Computer data. - Publisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:october.19 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by Henry Louis Gates Jr -- Introduction : Reconsidering Roots / Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson -- Part I. Rethinking the context. Roots, the legacy of slavery, and civil rights backlash in 1970s America / Clare Corbould -- The politics of plagiarism: Roots, Margaret Walker, and Alex Haley / Tyler D. Parry -- "My furthest-back person" : black genealogy before and after Roots / Francesca Morgan -- Part II. Rereading roots. Roots of violence : race, power, and manhood in Roots / Delia Mellis -- The roots of African American labor struggles : reading Roots and Backstairs at the White House in a 1970s storytelling tradition / Elise Chatelain -- Letting America off the hook : Roots, Django unchained, and the divided white self / C. Richard King and David J. Leonard -- The black military image in Roots: the next generations / Robert K. Chester -- The same, but a step removed: aspects of the British reception of Roots / Martin Stollery -- Re-rooting Roots : the South African perspective / Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, and Bhekuyise Zungu -- One man's quest : Chiang Ssu-chang, Roots, and the mainlander homebound movement in Taiwan / Dominic Meng-hsuan Yang. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. |