{"product_id":"reconsidering-roots-race-politics-and-memory-paperback","title":"Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErica L. Ball\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKellie Carter Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eErica L. Ball\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection--the first of its kind--invites us to recon-sider the politics and scope of the \u003ci\u003eRoots\u003c\/i\u003e phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley's 1976 book was a publishing sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and winning a National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. The 1977 television adaptation was more than a blockbuster miniseries--it was a galvanizing national event, drawing a record-shattering viewership, earning thirty-eight Emmy nominations, and changing overnight the discourse on race, civil rights, and slavery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays--from emerging and established scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies--interrogate \u003ci\u003eRoots\u003c\/i\u003e, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power in the United States and abroad. Taken together, the essays ask us to reconsider the limitations and possibilities of this work, which, although dogged by controversy, must be understood as one of the most extraordinary media events of the late twentieth century, a cultural touchstone of enduring significance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, Elise Chatelain, Robert K. Chester, Clare Corbould, C. Richard King, David J. Leonard, Delia Mellis, Francesca Morgan, Tyler D. Parry, Martin Stollery, Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, Bhekuyise Zungu\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErica L. Ball (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ERICA L. BALL is a professor of American studies at Occidental College. She is author of \u003ci\u003eTo Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKellie Carter Jackson (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e KELLIE CARTER JACKSON is an assistant professor of history at Hunter College, CUNY, and the author of \u003ci\u003eForce and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 234\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450114654386,"sku":"9780820350820","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5af058bd8a2ecd2383fd4ab0fb8347aa.webp?v=1778780556","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/reconsidering-roots-race-politics-and-memory-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}