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Cultural Trauma : Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
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This book 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. Ron Eyerman offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, and provides a new and compelling account of the birth of African-American identity.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521004374
- ISBN-10: 0521004373
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: December 2001
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.71 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.02 pounds
- Page Count: 316
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