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More copies of this ISBNCivil Rights Movement in American Memoryby Renee Christine Romano
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over the movement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past two decades. How the civil rights movement is currently being remembered in American politics and culture--and why it matters--is the common theme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection. Memories of the movement are being created and maintained--in ways and for purposes we sometimes only vaguely perceive--through memorials, art exhibits, community celebrations, and even street names. At least fifteen civil rights movement museums have opened since 1990; Mississippi Burning, Four Little Girls, and The Long Walk Home only begin to suggest the range of film and television dramatizations of pivotal events; corporations increasingly employ movement images to sell fast food, telephones, and more; and groups from Christian conservatives to gay rights activists have claimed the civil rights mantle. Contests over the movement's meaning are a crucial part of the continuing fight against racism and inequality. These writings look at how civil rights memories become established as fact through museum exhibits, street naming, and courtroom decisions; how our visual culture transmits the memory of the movement; how certain aspects of the movement have come to be ignored in its "official" narrative; and how other political struggles have appropriated the memory of the movement. Here is a book for anyone interested in how we collectively recall, claim, understand, and represent the past. Book News Annotation:Romano (history and African American studies, Wesleyan U.) and
Raiford (African American studies, U. of California at Berkeley)
present an anthology exploring the nature and significance of the
historical memory of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s
and 60s. Highlighting how contestations over the construction and
representation of historical memory can reveal contrasting social and
political agendas for the present and future and different attitudes
towards America's past, the 12 papers address the explore such topics
a the reputational politics of commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.
in Georgia street names, media culture public memory of the civil
rights movement, photographic memory of black power in Vibe magazine,
remembering race and gender in the Mississippi movement, deaf
activism at Gaullaudet University and historical memory of the civil
rights movement, and the adoption of civil rights movement rhetoric
by the Christian right.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Making sense of our cluttered, selective memory of the civil rights movement.
Synopsis:Memories of the civil rights movement are being created and maintained through memorials, art exhibits, community celebrations, and even street names. At least fifteen civil rights movement museums have opened since 1990; Mississippi Burning, Four Little Girls, and The Long Walk Home only begin to suggest the range of film and television dramatizations of pivotal events; and groups from Christian conservatives to gay rights activists have claimed the civil rights mantle. Contests over the movement's meaning are a crucial part of the continuing fight against racism and inequality. These writings look at how civil rights memories become established as fact through museum exhibits, street naming, and courtroom decisions. Here is a book for anyone interested in how we collectively recall, claim, understand, and represent the past. About the Author"A timely, thoughtful, and pathbreaking survey of Americans struggle to make sense of the most important upheaval in recent American history. The authors ask vital questions about who remembers the civil rights struggle and how they do so. It is unquestionably a major contribution to the emerging scholarship on the civil rights movement and its legacy."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "This is a very impressive collection of essays that contributes in important ways to the already strong literature on the Civil Rights Movement, and its enduring legacy, meanings, and consequences."--Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California Berkeley "This challenging collection offers a fundamental reframing of the 'civil rights struggle. By treating that struggle as the site of 'intense ideological struggle,' as one author puts it, these essays provide the questions which will allow to better understand the current historical moment as well as the past."--Charles M. Payne, Duke University "Romano and Raiford have compiled a volume that deserves a wide readership by historians and especially the public. It is a timely volume, with original, interdisciplinary research (only three of the thirteen essays have been published before) that provokes further reflection on the meaning of the Civil Rights Movement. . . . The editors have done an admirable job of compiling essays from a variety of perspectives. . . . Classes on historical methods, public history, contemporary America, and the Civil Rights Movement would especially benefit from these essays, but historians will find uses for them in other classes as well. . . . This is an excellent book and all the contributors, the press, and especially the editors deserve congratulations for bringing this work together. It is a labor well worth the time and energy that produced it."--H-South "Above all, the essays in this collection seek to highlight the relevance to contemporary politics and culture of these struggles over a 'proper' telling of the civil rights story."--Journal of American History "Succeeds in showing how the memories of the civil rights movement are fiercely contested, inherently political, and deployed by different people to vastly different ends. Perhaps most importantly, it illustrates that the movement, both in terms of its legacies and its real social and political gains and shortcomings, is far from finished and still wide open to interpretation and debate."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "Timely and important . . . This collection is an important opening statement in what is sure to become a vital conversation for scholars of the civil rights movement and of American memory."--Reviews in American History "Will inspire its readers to rethink the complexities of this important chapter of U.S. history and of how the story of the Civil Rights Movement is being told and retold as the actual events move further into the past.”--Southern Cultures What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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