Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity

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.

ISBN-13: 9780521004374

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 12-13-2001

Pages: 316

Product Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d

Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies (Paperback)

Eyerman, Ron: - Ronald Eyerman is the holder of the Segerstedt Chair of Sociology, and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University (1900-2000). His recent publications include Music and Social Movements (Cambridge, 1998).