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Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham Sandra K. Gill

Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham By Sandra K. Gill

Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham by Sandra K. Gill


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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.

Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham Summary

Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham: We Didn't Know it was History until after it Happened by Sandra K. Gill

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.

About Sandra K. Gill

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.

Table of Contents

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

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NPB9783319471358
9783319471358
331947135X
Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham: We Didn't Know it was History until after it Happened by Sandra K. Gill
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2016-11-17
128
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