Titlebook: Whites Recall the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham; We Didn’t Know it wa Sandra K. Gill Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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,Our Town—Our School—My Research,discusses her in-depth interviews with classmates. As youth, the twenty men and women she interviews were near the center of events that have become key to collective memory of the Movement in the USA.

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Constructing a Cultural Trauma,cultural trauma, Gill explains why the Church bombing has become key to collective memory of the Civil Rights Movement. After the bombing and subsequent riots, traditional narratives grounded in the myth of the Lost Cause could no longer support white identity. Gill discusses representation of the ‘

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Silence, Youth, and Change,ill shows that most interviewees have only vague memories of Virgil Ware’s shooting. Even though Virgil was killed by a respected classmate, he is not central to memories. Whites in Birmingham maintain a ‘coalition of silence’ about the Civil Rights Movement that allows forgetting. They also claim n

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Techniques of Memory,“regretted acts,” “risky confrontations,” and “defiant deeds.” Gill traces the origins of these narratives in popular culture. She analyzes her own recollections based on the transcript of an interview she gave about integration before she began this project. From this interview and new information

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Collective Recollections: Approaches to Memory in Sociology,tivities in Birmingham reconstructed their autobiographical memories in light of a difficult past. The chapter overviews important strategies for this analysis including Halbwachs’ work on memory, recent literature on commemorations, Swidler’s conceptualization of culture, and the cultural theory of trauma.