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Is This America?: Katrina As Cultural Trauma (katrina Bookshelf) by Ron Eyerman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This Book Explores How Katrina Has Been Constructed As A Cultural Trauma In Print Media, The Arts And Popular Culture, And Television Coverage. Using Stories Told By The New York Times, New Orleans Times-picayune, Time, Newsweek, Nbc, And Cnn, As Well As The Works Of Artists, Writers, Musicians, Filmmakers, And Graphic Designers, Ron Eyerman Analyzes How These Narratives Publicly Articulated Collective Pain And Loss. He Demonstrates That, By Exposing A Foundational Racial Cleavage In American Society, These Expressions Of Cultural Trauma Turned Individual Experiences Of Suffering During Katrina Into A National Debate About The Failure Of The White Majority In The United States To Care About The Black Minority. Breaking The Covenant -- Print Media -- Arts And Popular Culture -- Television Coverage. Ron Eyerman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Who reads Is This America?: Katrina As Cultural Trauma (katrina Bookshelf)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ron Eyerman
- Publisher
- Austin: University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781477303689
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, History
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