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Reconsidering roots : race, politics, and memory

Ball, Erica, (editor.). Jackson, Kellie Carter, (editor.). Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., (writer of foreword.).

Summary: These essays -- from 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.

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ISBN: 0820350842
ISBN: 9780820350844
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 211 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]

Content descriptions

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.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.