Behind the Big House
Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South
Seiten
2022
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-817-1 (ISBN)
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-817-1 (ISBN)
When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centred, obscuring the lives of enslaved people. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the US South.
When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. The book explores Jodi Skipper’s eight-year collaboration with the Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used at local historic sites to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture.
In laying out her experiences through an autoethnographic approach, Skipper seeks to help other activist scholars of color negotiate the nuances of place, the academic public sphere, and its ambiguous systems of reward, recognition, and evaluation.
When residents and tourists visit sites of slavery, whose stories are told? All too often the lives of slaveowners are centered, obscuring the lives of enslaved people. Behind the Big House gives readers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to interpret the difficult history of slavery in the U.S. South. The book explores Jodi Skipper’s eight-year collaboration with the Behind the Big House program, a community-based model used at local historic sites to address slavery in the collective narrative of U.S. history and culture.
In laying out her experiences through an autoethnographic approach, Skipper seeks to help other activist scholars of color negotiate the nuances of place, the academic public sphere, and its ambiguous systems of reward, recognition, and evaluation.
Jodi Skipper is associate professor of anthropology and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. She is coeditor of Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
Foreword by Anne Valk and Teresa Mangum
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Thank You, Cousin Geneva!
2 Heritage Tourism in Mississippi
3 The Behind the Big House Program
4 Reconciling Race
5 Academic Values and Public Scholarship
Epilogue What to Throw Away and What to Keep
Appendix A Historic Site Evaluation
Appendix B Small-Group
Discussion Questions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Humanities and Public Life |
| Verlagsort | Iowa |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 151 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 179 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60938-817-8 / 1609388178 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60938-817-1 / 9781609388171 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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