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Remembering Emmett Till

Door Dave Tell

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#390144-ZD34
Titel	Remembering Emmett Till
Auteur	Tell, Dave
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	The University of Chicago Press
Jaar van uitgave	2019
ISBN10	022655953X
ISBN13	9780226559537
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original brown boards, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and injustice that became a beacon in the fight for racial equality. The ways this event is remembered have been fraught from the beginning, revealing currents of controversy, patronage, and racism lurking just behind the placid facades of historical markers. In Remembering Emmett Till, Dave Tell gives us five accounts of the commemoration of this infamous crime. In a development no one could have foreseen, Till's murder—one of the darkest moments in the region's history—has become an economic driver for the Delta. Historical touri... (Lees verder)sm has transformed seemingly innocuous places like bridges, boat landings, gas stations, and riverbeds into sites of racial politics, reminders of the still-unsettled question of how best to remember the victim of this heinous crime. Tell builds an insightful and persuasive case for how these memorials have altered the Delta's physical and cultural landscape, drawing potent connections between the dawn of the civil rights era and our own moment of renewed fire for racial justice.
Pagina's	308
Conditie	Goed — Name and date on title page.; cover partly discoloured.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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