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edited by Renee C. Romano and Leigh RaifordPublication Details
BookUniversity of Georgia Press2006Availability
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The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; 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. At least fifteen civil rights movement museums have opened since 1990; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Introduction: thestruggle over memory /Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano
- Interpreting the Civil Rights movement : contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape /Owen J. Dwyer
- |gTheBirmingham Civil Rights Institute and the new ideology of tolerance /Glenn Eskew
- Street names as memorial arenas: the reputational politics of commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. in a Georgia county /Derek H. Alderman
- Narrative of redemption: the Birmingham Church bombing trials and the construction of Civil Rights memory /Renee C. Romano
- |gThegood, the bad, and the forgotten: media culture and public memory of the Civil Rights movement /Edward P. Morgan
- Debating the present through the past: representations of the Civil Rights movement in the 1990s /Jennifer Fuller
- Integration as disintegration: remembering the Civil Rights movement as a struggle for self-determination in John Sayles’s Sunshine state /Tim Libretti
- Restaging revolution: black power, Vibe magazine, and photographic memory /Leight Raiford
- Down to now: memory, narrative, and women’s leadership in the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta, Georgia / Kathryn L. Nasstrom
- Engendering movement memories: remembering race and gender in the Mississippi movement / Steve Estes
- Deaf rights, civil rights: the Gallaudet "deaf president now" strike and historical memory of the Civil Rights movement /R.A.R. Edwards
- Riding in the back of the bus: the Christian Right’s adoption of Civil Rights movement rhetoric /David John Marley
- Rosa Parks, c’est moi /Sarah Vowell
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- 9780820328140
- 0820328146
- 9780820325385
- 0820325384
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