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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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