AMST 384 1st EditionLecture 6Outline of Last Lecture II. Martin Luther King Jr. Official HolidayIII. Other ProtestsIV. MemorialsV. Processes of DistortionVI. Goals of Emancipation CelebrationsOutline of Current Lecture VII. Problem of representing Slavery in memoryVIII. 4 Categories of SchudsonIX. Retrospective Nominalization X. Repression vs PTSDProblem of Representing Slavery in Memory- Unpredictable Rememberance of King at Baptist Church celebrationo No specifics of Kingo Talked about him biblically, called Reverendo Said he supported armed forces when really he was anti-militarization4 New Categories of Schudson- Instrumentalization- Distanciation- Narrativization- when we try to understand past, we have ways that we are used to telling storieso Such as always having a protagonist or climaxo Can distort history when put into a narrative - Cognitivization and ConventialiationSlavery- Retrospective Nominalization- using past, future events change truth of pasto Ex: WWI got name after 1940, before it was called the Great War- Slavery was so horrible that the history needs to be repressed- Repression- memories that don’t exist in you consciousnessThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- PTSD- event so traumatic that cant be repressed because you always rememeber it unconciouslly- Fluidity and trauma of memory o Ex: Cameron Rd on UNC property was originally plantation owner’s name - IN Williamsburg, visitors go to look at furniture and pretty houses and forget that 50 percent of Williamsburg were slave ownerso Now hold a second tour to show the truths behind slaveryo Many whites get angry and upset over pasto Reactions to actors playing a slave at the museum- What material memory do slaves have?o Musico Couldn’t own anything because they were the slaves property o Ex: words like Niggeredly- means to be a hoarder, however, today we cant use that word anymore because of the connotation of the
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