Research Catalog

Title

Reconsidering roots : race, politics, and memory / edited by Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson.

Publication

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ball, Erica L., 1971-
• Jackson, Kellie Carter

Description

xviii, 211 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

These essays -- from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies -- interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.

Series Statement

Since 1970: Histories of contemporary America

Uniform Title

Since 1970.

Subject

• Roots (Television program : 1977)
• Slavery on television
• African Americans on television
• Racism on television
• Race on television

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Henry Louis Gates Jr -- Introduction : Reconsidering Roots / Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson -- Part I. Rethinking the context. Roots, the legacy of slavery, and civil rights backlash in 1970s America / Clare Corbould -- The politics of plagiarism: Roots, Margaret Walker, and Alex Haley / Tyler D. Parry -- "My furthest-back person" : black genealogy before and after Roots / Francesca Morgan -- Part II. Rereading roots. Roots of violence : race, power, and manhood in Roots / Delia Mellis -- The roots of African American labor struggles : reading Roots and Backstairs at the White House in a 1970s storytelling tradition / Elise Chatelain -- Letting America off the hook : Roots, Django unchained, and the divided white self / C. Richard King and David J. Leonard -- The black military image in Roots: the next generations / Robert K. Chester -- The same, but a step removed: aspects of the British reception of Roots / Martin Stollery -- Re-rooting Roots : the South African perspective / Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, and Bhekuyise Zungu -- One man's quest : Chiang Ssu-chang, Roots, and the mainlander homebound movement in Taiwan / Dominic Meng-hsuan Yang.

Call Number

Sc E 17-883

ISBN

• 9780820350837
• 0820350834
• 9780820350820
• 0820350826

LCCN

2016043639

OCLC

960030949

Title

Reconsidering roots : race, politics, and memory / edited by Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson.

Publisher

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Since 1970: Histories of contemporary America

Since 1970.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ball, Erica L., 1971- editor.

Jackson, Kellie Carter, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-883