The Culture Corner is an initiative of the University of Tennessee Libraries’ Belonging and Engagement Committee. The Corner is located on the second floor of Hodges Library in the Dixie Marie Wooten Commons West and displays books and e-book titles from the Libraries’ collection that address a chosen cultural theme.
This guide includes resources that explore the topic of The 1619 Project, which was a group-read of the University of Tennessee Libraries and UT's School of Information Science in Spring 2024. In addition to books and e-books, selected lists of media resources (DVDs, streaming audio and video), journals, databases, and websites are featured.
The New York Times Magazine's award-winning 1619 Project issue re-framed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance.
The black experience in America-- starting from its origins in western Africa up to the present day-- is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.
America's slave past remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the culture wars over the way that slavery is remembered and taught have reached a new crescendo. This collection explores current controversies and offers a bracing analysis of how people remember their past and how the lessons they draw influence American politics and culture today.
This book was designed as a collaborative effort to satisfy a long-felt need to pull together many important but separate inquiries into the nature and impact of inequality in colonial and revolutionary America.
In this collection of essays, historians and literary scholars consider how the first three generations of American citizens interpreted their nation's origins. They show how the memory of the Revolution became politicized early in the nation's history, as different interests sought to harness its meaning for their own ends.
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