Title
America's atonement: Racial pain, recovery rhetoric, and the pedagogy of healing
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2004
Date Added
2022-05-16
Abstract
How does a nation redeem itself? What ideas, values, and strategies get mobilized in order for a nation to feel good about itself again? Is such a recovery possible for an entire people? America's Atonement provides one answer to these and related questions by arguing that racial pain, notably white racial pain, provides a metaphor for understanding a wide range of redemption-aimed cultural practices, ranging from the Yellow Ribbon Movement (1972-1992) to the current wave of recovery movies such as Disclosure and Forrest Gump.
ISBN
0-8204-3145-1
Disciplines
Sociology
Recommended Citation
Gresson, Aaron David, "America's atonement: Racial pain, recovery rhetoric, and the pedagogy of healing" (2004). College of Liberal Arts. 140.
https://research.paynecenter.org/morgan_cls/140
Publisher
Peter Lang