Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity

Title: Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity
Author: Ron Eyerman
ISBN: 9780521004374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 316
Publisher Description: This book explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory--a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Ron Eyerman offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, and provides a new and compelling account of the birth of African-American identity.