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  title info:
    title: Mourning in America
    sub title: race and the politics of loss
  name:
    name part: McIvor, David Wallace
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 224 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of the Black Lives Matter movement, which has gained force through its identification of pervasive social injustices with individual losses. The deaths of Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott and so many others have brought private grief into the public sphere. The rhetoric and iconography of mourning has been noteworthy in Black Lives Matter protests, but David W. McIvor believes that we have paid too little attention to the nature of social mourning, its relationship to private grief, its practices and its pathologies and democratic possibilities. In Mourning in America, McIvor addresses significant and urgent questions about how citizens can mourn traumatic events and enduring injustices in their communities. McIvor offers a framework for analyzing the politics of mourning, drawing from psychoanalysis, Greek tragedy and scholarly discourses on truth and reconciliation. Mourning in America connects these literatures to ongoing activism surrounding racial injustice, and it contextualizes Black Lives Matter in the broader politics of grief and recognition. McIvor also examines recent, grassroots-organized truth and reconciliation processes such as the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004-2006), which provided a public examination of the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, a deadly incident involving local members of the Communist Workers Party and the Ku Klux Klan.
  table of contents: The politics of mourning in America : from the Greensboro Massacre to the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission-- Antigone and the agonistic politics of mourning -- The imaginary city : consensual mourning from Pericles to John Rawls -- There is trouble here : there is more to come : Greek tragedy and the work of mourning -- A splintering and shattering activity : truth, reconciliation, mourning -- Afterword : "Black Lives Matter" and the democratic work of mourning.
  note: David W. McIvor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Violence against
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Violence against
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Bereavement
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Grief
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Collective memory
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Black lives matter movement
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: Political aspects
  classification: E185.615 .M3537 2016
  classification: 305.800973
  identifier: 9781501704956
  identifier: 1501704958
  identifier: 2016021191
  record info:
    record content source: NIC/DLC
    record creation date: 160508
    record change date: 20170926151527.0
    record identifier: in00003714551