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Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo.
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Blacks -- United States -- Historiography.
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Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo.
Blacks -- United States -- Historiography.
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Reclaiming
the
Black
past
: the
use
and
misuse
of
African
American
history
in the
twenty-first
century
/ Pero Gaglo Dagbovie.
by
Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo.
Verso, 2018.
Call #:
973.0496073 D125r
Subjects
Blacks -- United States -- Historiography.
ISBN:
9781786632036 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Use
and
misuse
of
African
American
history
in the 21st
century
Description:
xiv, 224 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
"None of our hands are entirely clean" : Obama and the challenge of
African
American
history
-- Honoring "the gift of
Black
folk" : the contested meaning of
Black
History
Month -- Dramatizing the
Black
past
:
twenty-first
century
Hollywood portrayals of
Black
history
-- "Everything is funny" : humor,
Black
history
, and
African
American
comedians -- "So long in coming" : political and legal attempts to right
past
wrongs.
Summary:
"The
past
and future of
Black
history
... In this information-overloaded
twenty-first
century
, it seems impossible to fully discern or explain how we know about the
past
. But two things are certain. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we all think historically on a routine basis. And our perceptions of
history
, including
African
American
history
, have not necessarily been shaped by professional historians. In this wide-reaching and timely book, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie argues that public knowledge and understanding of
black
history
, including its historical icons, has been shaped by institutions and individuals outside academic ivory towers. Drawing on a range of compelling examples, Dagbovie explores how, in the
twenty-first
century
,
African
American
history
is regarded, depicted, and juggled by diverse and contesting interpreters—from museum curators to filmmakers, entertainers, politicians, journalists, and bloggers. Underscoring the ubiquitous nature of African-American
history
in contemporary
American
thought and culture, each chapter unpacks how
black
history
has been represented and remembered primarily during the “Age of Obama,” the so-called era of “post-racial”
American
society.
Reclaiming
the
Black
Past
is Dagbovie's contribution to expanding how we understand
African
American
history
during the new millennium."--From publisher.
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