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008			160615s2016 alu ob 001 0 eng d
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100	1		_aDavis, Patricia G. _q(Patricia Gail), _d1970- _e1
245	1	0	_aLaying claim : _bAfrican American cultural memory and southern identity / _cPatricia G. Davis.
260			_aTuscaloosa : _bThe University of Alabama Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	0		_aRhetoric, culture, and social critique
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505	0	0	_aCultural memory and African American southern identity: an introduction -- _tGhosts of Nat Turner: African American Civil War reenactment and the performance of historical agency, citizenship, and masculinity -- _tSo that the dead may finally speak: space, place, and the transformational rhetoric of Black history museums -- _tFrom old south to new media: museum informatics, narrative, and the production of critical history -- _tConclusion: southern identities in the twenty-first century.
520	0		_a"In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern identity was monolithically white. Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory--battlefields, museums, online communities--has dispelled the mirage of "southernness" as a stolid cairn of white culture and has begun to create a more fluid sense of southernness that welcomes contributions by all of the region's peoples. Laying Claim offers insightful and penetrating examinations of African American participation in Civil War reenactments; the role of black history museums in enriching representations of the Civil War era with more varied interpretations; and the internet as a forum within which participants exchange and create historical narratives that offer alternatives to unquestioned and dominant public memories. From this evolving cultural landscape, Davis demonstrates how simplistic caricatures of African American experiences are giving way to more authentic, expansive, and inclusive interpretations of southernness. As a case-study and example of change, Davis cites the evolution of depictions of life at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Where visitors to the site once encountered narratives that repeated the stylized myth of Monticello as a genteel idyll, modern accounts of Jefferson's day offer a holistic, inclusive, and increasingly honest view of Monticello as the residents on every rung of the social ladder experienced it. Contemporary violence and attacks about or inspired by the causes, outcomes, and symbols of the Civil War, even one hundred and fifty years after its end, add urgency to Davis's argument that the control and creation of public memories of that war is an issue of concern not only to scholars but all Americans. Her hopeful examination of African American participation in public memory illuminates paths by which this enduring ideological impasse may find resolutions."--Publisher's description
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650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xRace identity _zSouthern States.
650		0	_aWhite people _xRace identity _zSouthern States.
650		0	_aCollective memory _zSouthern States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1250435&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell