Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity

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.

Author: Ron Eyerman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/13/2001
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.61w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780521808286

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2002 pg. 557

About the Author
Eyerman, Ron: - Ronald Eyerman is the holder of the Segerstedt Chair of Sociology, and a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University (1900-2000). His recent publications include Music and Social Movements (Cambridge, 1998).

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