Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham : We Didn't Know it was History until after it Happened

This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama developed as a trauma of culture. Throughout the book, Sandra Gill asks why the "four little girls" killed in the bombing became part of the nation's collective memory,...

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Main Author Gill, Sandra K. (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesCultural Sociology
Subjects
Social sciences.
Religion and culture.
Historical sociology.
Ethnicity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319471365
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-47136-5
Physical DescriptionIX, 128 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Collective Recollections: Approaches to Memory in Sociology
  • 3. Our Town-Our School-My Research
  • 4. Narrating Recollections
  • 5. Constructing a Cultural Trauma
  • 6. Silence, Youth, and Change
  • 7. Fine Families and a Forgotten Past: The New Narrative
  • 8. Techniques of Memory
  • 9. Conclusion.

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