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By Antoinette T Jackson

ISBN-10: 1598745484

ISBN-13: 9781598745481

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ISBN-13: 9781598745498

concentrating on the business enterprise of enslaved Africans and their descendants within the South, this paintings argues for the systematic unveiling and restoration of subjugated wisdom, histories, and cultural practices of these frequently silenced and neglected by way of nationwide history tasks and nationwide public thoughts. Jackson makes use of either ethnographic and ethnohistorical information to teach a number of the methods African americans actively created and maintained their very own historical past and cultural formations. seen during the lens of 4 particular plantation sites—including the single on which that the ancestors of First woman Michelle Obama lived—everyday acts of dwelling, studying, and surviving profoundly problem the way in which American history has been built and represented. a desirable, severe view of the methods tradition, background, social coverage, and identification effect history websites and the company of historical past learn administration in public spaces.

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