The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War (Boundless South) - Tapa dura

Young, Jason R.

 
9781469694344: The Mask of Memory: White Racial Fantasy After the Civil War (Boundless South)
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ISBN 10: 1469694344 ISBN 13: 9781469694344
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 2026

Sinopsis

Many of the sights and sounds that Americans associate with slavery are rooted in a grandiose historical myth. The image of the Big House, sitting atop carefully manicured rolling green hills, is in large part, a fantasy―as is the idea of the plantation as an expansive family home to chivalrous planters and content slaves. Still, these myths persist.

Jason R. Young explores the persistence of these myths and the historical memory of slavery by focusing on the elite white mythmakers who helped shape our understanding of slavery. In the early twentieth century, a group of white writers, artists, and performers from the cultural hub of Charleston, South Carolina, created and curated a highly sanitized view of slavery. They imagined a once and future plantation society that would reestablish them as the proper heirs of the slave past. In the process, they crafted a set of dangerously durable and virulent stereotypes about slavery. Focusing on literature, art, and performance, Young examines both the power and the folly of these ideas. In uncovering their origins, The Mask of Memory resists these racial fantasies and challenges their stubborn resurgence in our own time.

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Jason R. Young is professor of history at the University of Michigan.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1469694344
ISBN 13 
9781469694344
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Número de páginas
272
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