TY - GEN T1 - Philadelphia Freedoms : Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King. A1 - Awkward, Michael LA - English PP - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn857365244 AB - Michael Awkward's Philadelphia Freedoms captures the energetic contestations over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the City of Brotherly Love. Looking closely at four cultural moments, he shows how racial trauma and his native city's history have been entwined. He introduces each of these moments with poignant personal memories of the decade in focus and explores representation of African American freedom and oppression from the 1960s to the 1990s. Philadelphia Freedoms explores NBA players' psychic pain dur. OP - 265 CN - PS153 .N5 A947 2013 SN - 9781439907108 SN - 1439907102 SN - 9781439907092 KW - American fiction : African American authors : History and criticism. KW - African Americans : Intellectual life. KW - Collective memory in literature. KW - Psychic trauma in literature. KW - Roman américain : Auteurs noirs américains : Histoire et critique. KW - Noirs américains : Vie intellectuelle. KW - Mémoire collective dans la littérature. KW - Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : General. KW - African Americans : Intellectual life KW - American fiction : African American authors KW - Collective memory in literature KW - Psychic trauma in literature KW - Schwarze KW - Kultur KW - Literatur KW - Rassenpolitik KW - Kollektives Gedächtnis KW - Psychisches Trauma KW - USA KW - Philadelphia, Pa. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -