America's Atonement

Racial Pain, Recovery Rhetoric, and the Pedagogy of Healing

• Author(s): Aaron David Gresson,
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 159
• ISBN_10: 0820431451
  ISBN_13: 9780820431451
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / General , Drama / General , Education / General , Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Discrimination , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations ,

Description:... 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.