Reconsidering roots : race, politics, and memory / edited by Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ball, Erica L., 1971- (Editor)
Jackson, Kellie Carter (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Roots (Television program : 1977)
Slavery on television.
African Americans on television.
Racism on television.
Race on television.
Physical Description:xviii, 211 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / by Henry Louis Gates Jr
  • Introduction / Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson
  • Rethinking the context. Roots, the legacy of slavery, and civil rights backlash in 1970s America / Clare Corbould
  • The politics of plagiarism: Roots, Margaret Walker, and Alex Haley / Tyler D. Parry
  • "My furthest-back person": black genealogy before and after Roots / Francesca Morgan
  • Rereading roots. Roots of violence: race, power, and manhood in Roots / Delia Mellis
  • The roots of African American labor struggles: reading Roots and Backstairs at the White House in a 1970s storytelling tradition / Elise Chatelain
  • Letting America off the hook: Roots, Django unchained, and the divided white self / Richard King and David J. Leonard
  • The black military image in Roots: the next generations / Robert K. Chester
  • Rerouting Roots. The same, but a step removed: aspects of the British reception of Roots / Martin Stollery
  • Re-rooting Roots: the South African perspective / Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, and Bhekuyise Zungu
  • One man's quest: Chiang Ssu-chang, Roots, and the mainlander homebound movement in Taiwan / Dominic Meng-hsuan Yang.