
Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham
We Didn't Know it was History until after it Happened
Sandra K. Gill(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 29. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 128 pages
978-3-319-83663-8 (ISBN)
Description
This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama developed as a trauma of culture. Throughout the book, Gill asks why the "four little girls" killed in the bombing became part of the nation's collective memory, while two black boys killed by whites on the same day were all but forgotten. Conducting interviews with classmates who attended a white school a few blocks from some of the most memorable events of the Civil Rights Movement, Gill discovers that the bombing of the church is central to interviewees' memories. Even the boy killed by Gill's own classmates often escapes recollection. She then considers these findings within the framework of the reception of memory and analyzes how white southerners reconstruct a difficult past.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
IX, 128 p.
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
1906 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-83663-8 (9783319836638)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-47136-5
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Sandra K. Gill
Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham
We Didn't Know it was History until after it Happened
Book
11/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Sandra K. Gill is Associate Professor of Sociology at Gettysburg College, USA, where she teaches courses in social theory, gender, and qualitative methods. Her published works include articles on gender inequality, gender differences in personality, and autobiographical memory.
Content
1. Introduction2. Collective Recollections: Approaches to Memory in Sociology3. Our Town - Our School - My Research4. Narrating Recollections5. Constructing a Cultural Trauma6. Silence, Youth, and Change7. Fine Families and a Forgotten Past: The New Narrative8. Techniques of Memory9. Conclusion