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Mixed-race identity in the American South : roots, memory, and family secrets
- Title
- Mixed-race identity in the American South : roots, memory, and family secrets / Julia Sattler.
- Author
- Sattler, Julia
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- x, 225 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed "memoir of the search." The study uses four different texts to explore this non-fictional genre, including Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip's The Sweeter the Juice. All feature a protagonist using methods from archival investigation to DNA-testing to explore an intergenerational family secret; photographs and family trees; and the trip to the American South, which is identified as the site of the secret's origin and of the family's past. As a genre, these texts negotiate the memory of slavery and segregation in the present. In taking up central narratives of Americanness, such as the American Dream and the Immigrant story, as well as discourses generating the American family, the texts help inscribe themselves and the mixed-race heritage they address into the American mainstream. In its outlook, this book highlights the importance of the memoirs' negotiations of the past when finding ways to remember after the last witnesses have passed away. and contributes to the discussion over political justice and reparations for slavery." --
- Series Statement
- New studies in Southern history
- Uniform Title
- New studies in Southern history.
- Subject
- Racially mixed people > Race identity > Southern States
- African Americans > Race identity > Southern States
- Race > Social aspects > Southern States
- Collective memory > Southern States
- Racially mixed people in literature
- Race in literature
- Autobiography in literature
- Literature
- Race > Social aspects
- Racially mixed people > Race identity
- Southern States > In literature
- Southern States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Memoir of the Search : the emergence of mixed-race literary genre -- Writing mixed selves at the turn of the millennium -- Family secrets : uncovering mixed-race heritage -- Media of memory : generating the family -- Narrating the mixed-race nation -- The past in the present : encounters with the south -- Conclusion : making history at the turn of the millennium.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-504
- ISBN
- 1793627061
- 9781793627063
- LCCN
- 2021932943
- OCLC
- 1237861747
- Author
- Sattler, Julia, author.
- Title
- Mixed-race identity in the American South : roots, memory, and family secrets / Julia Sattler.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New studies in Southern historyNew studies in Southern history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-504