Jonathan Scott Holloway is provost of Northwestern University.
[An] artful, moving book."--Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society
[A] riveting account of how we see, study, and learn about racial
identity, and how we acquire the memories that shape that identity.
. . . An evocative bildungsroman in which we see the social
scientist as a young man become the provocative
historian."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
A book worth careful study. . . . A nuanced account of African
American identity and survival during the age of Jim Crow."--North
Carolina Historical Review
A very valuable contribution that has broader significance than a
traditional history book. . . . Highly recommended. All
levels/libraries."--Choice
An outstanding and beautifully written book that opens up a whole
new conversation about the role of memory, knowledge production,
and identity formation within African American life."--Journal of
Southern History
Combines memoir and family history with social science to look at
the stories that African-Americans have told about themselves and
to their children."--faithandleadership.com
Outstanding."--Oral History Review
Shows how racial alienation continues to stoke a centuries-old
longing for home in many African-Americans."--Chronicle of Higher
Education
With a scholarly perspective, [Holloway] engages with his own
family lore and makes a fair amount of self-discovery in this
exploration of modern black identity."--Stanford Magazine
The author's trenchant wit simultaneously unsettles and engages the
reader. . . . A significant, and personal, contribution to the
burgeoning field of memory studies, and black historical memory in
particular." --American Historical Review
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