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Mourning in America : race and the politics of loss / David W. McIvor.
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McIvor, David Wallace
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English
Published/Created
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Description
xv, 224 pages ; 24 cm
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E185.615 .M3537 2016
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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Violence against
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History
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20th century
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African Americans
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Violence against
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History
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21st century
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Bereavement
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Political aspects
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United States
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Grief
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Political aspects
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United States
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Collective memory
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Political aspects
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United States
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Black lives matter movement
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United States
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Race relations
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Political aspects
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Summary note
"Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but David W. McIvor believes that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourning--its relationship to private grief, its practices, and its pathologies and democratic possibilities. In Mourning in America, McIvor addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. McIvor offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, Greek tragedy, and scholarly discourses on truth and reconciliation. Mourning in America connects these literatures to ongoing activism surrounding racial injustice, and it contextualizes Black Lives Matter in the broader politics of grief and recognition. McIvor also examines recent, grassroots-organized truth and reconciliation processes such as the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004-2006), which provided a public examination of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979--a deadly incident involving local members of the Communist Workers Party and the Ku Klux Klan"--Publisher's Web site.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-219) and index.
Contents
The politics of mourning in America: from the Greensboro massacrew to the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
To join hate: Antigone and the agonistic politics of mourning
The imaginary city: consensual mourning from Pericles to John Rawls
"There is trouble here. There is more to come": Greek tragedy and the work of mourning
A splintering and shattering activity: truth, reconciliation, mourning
Afterword: Black Lives Matter and the democratic work of mourning.
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9781501704956 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1501704958
LCCN
2016021191
OCLC
949553994
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