Research Catalog

Title

Behind the big house : reconciling slavery, race, and heritage in the U.S. South / Jodi Skipper.

Author

Skipper, Jodi

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]

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Details

Description

xxiv, 218 pages : color illustrations, color map; 23 cm.

Summary

"When residents and tourists visit plantation sites, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people and making it impossible for their descendants to process the meanings of these sites. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind the scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. The book explores Jodi Skipper's eight-year collaboration with the Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used at local historic sites around the country to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture. Part memoir and part ethnography, the book interweaves Skipper's experiences as a Black woman and a southerner to imagine more sustainable and healthy spaces for interracial collaborations around historic preservation and slavery tourism in the U.S. South. Skipper considers the growing need among professional and lay communities to address slavery and its impacts through interpretations of local historic sites. In laying out her experiences through an autoethnographic approach, Skipper seeks to help other activist scholars of color negotiate the nuances of place, the academic public sphere, and its ambiguous systems of reward, recognition, and evaluation. By directly speaking to a failed integration of teaching, research, and service as a crisis in academia, she strives not to give others answers, but to model another way of being"--

Series Statement

Humanities and public life

Uniform Title

Humanities and public life.

Alternative Title

Reconciling slavery, race, and heritage in the U.S. South

Subject

• Skipper, Jodi
• Behind the Big House (Program)
• University of Mississippi > Faculty > Biography
• African Americans > History > Study and teaching > Mississippi
• Historic sites > Study and teaching > Mississippi
• Plantations > History > Study and teaching > Mississippi
• Slavery > History > Study and teaching > Mississippi
• Heritage tourism > Mississippi
• African Americans > Study and teaching
• Heritage tourism
• Race relations
• Slavery > Study and teaching
• Mississippi > Race relations
• Holly Springs (Miss.)
• Mississippi
• Mississippi > Holly Springs

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Anne Valk and Teresa Mangum -- Thank you, cousin Geneva! -- Heritage tourism in Mississippi -- The Behind the Big House Program -- Reconciling race -- Academic values and public scholarship -- Epilogue: What to throw away and what to keep

Call Number

Sc D 22-549

ISBN

• 9781609388171
• 1609388178

LCCN

2021028040

OCLC

1273929198

Author

Skipper, Jodi, author.

Title

Behind the big house : reconciling slavery, race, and heritage in the U.S. South / Jodi Skipper.

Publisher

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Humanities and public life

Humanities and public life.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-549