Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity By Ron Eyerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2002 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 0521004373 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2002 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 0521004373 | PDF | 1 MB
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.