This book explores the Formation of the African-American Identity through the theory of Cultural trauma.
Ron Eyerman offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-Formation which have a truly universal significance, and provides a new and compelling account of the birth of African-American.
The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory--a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people\'s sense of itself.
This book explores the Formation of the African-American Identity through the theory of Cultural trauma