Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham

We Didn’t Know it was History until after it Happened

Sandra K. Gill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 128 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-47135-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

1. Introduction.- 2. Collective Recollections: Approaches to Memory in Sociology.- 3. Our Town-Our School-My Research.- 4. Narrating Recollections.- 5. Constructing a Cultural Trauma.- 6. Silence, Youth, and Change.- 7. Fine Families and a Forgotten Past: The New Narrative.- 8. Techniques of Memory.- 9. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Cultural Sociology
Zusatzinfo	IX, 128 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Autobiographical memory • Collective memory • Cultural Sociology • Ethnicity Studies • Ethnic Studies • Historical sociology • histrorical sociology • Race • Sixteenth Street Baptist Church • Social groups: religious groups and communities • Social Sciences • Sociology • Sociology of Culture • U.S. South
ISBN-10	3-319-47135-X / 331947135X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-47135-8 / 9783319471358
Zustand	Neuware