Race and reunion
the Civil War in American memory
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Publication
2001 - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
128,000 words, Guess
Page Count
512 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6786928M
- ISBN-100674003322
- OCLC Control Number44313386
- OCLC Control Numberracereunioncivil00blig
- Library of Congress Control Number00042918
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- Goodreads3994078
- LibraryThing13649
Classifications
- DDC973.7
- LCCE468.9 .B58 2001
Description
"No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion." "Race and Reunion is a history of how the unity of white America was purchased through the increasing segregation of black and white memory of the Civil War. Blight delves deeply into the shifting meanings of death and sacrifice, Reconstruction, the romanticized South of literature, soldiers' reminiscences of battle, the idea of the Lost Cause, and the ritual of Memorial Day. He resurrects the variety of African American voices and memories of the war and the efforts to preserve the emancipationist legacy in the midst of a culture built on its denial."--BOOK JACKET.
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