The Psychic Hold of Slavery - Legacies in American Expressive Culture

The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture

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English | 258 pages | Rutgers University Press; None edition (July 20, 2016) | 0813583969 | PDF | 21.45 Mb
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day?