Part II. Rereading roots. Dominic Meng-hsuan Yang. Introduction : One man's quest : Chiang Ssu-chang, Roots, and the mainlander homebound movement in Taiwan / Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson -- Part I. Rethinking the context. Roots, the legacy of slavery, and civil rights backlash in 1970s America / Clare Corbould -- The politics of plagiarism: Roots, Margaret Walker, and Alex Haley / Tyler D. Parry -- "My furthest-back person" : black genealogy before and after Roots / Francesca Morgan -- Part II. Rereading roots. Roots of violence : race, power, and manhood in Roots / Delia Mellis -- The roots of African American labor struggles : reading Roots and Backstairs at the White House in a 1970s storytelling tradition / Elise Chatelain -- Letting America off the hook : Roots, Django unchained, and the divided white self / C. Richard King and David J. Leonard -- The black military image in Roots: the next generations / Robert K. Chester -- The same, but a step removed: aspects of the British reception of Roots / Martin Stollery -- Re-rooting Roots : the South African perspective / Norvella P. Carter, Warren Chalklen, and Bhekuyise Zungu -- One man's quest : Chiang Ssu-chang, Roots, and the mainlander homebound movement in Taiwan / Dominic Meng-hsuan Yang.
Summary:
These essays -- from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies -- interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.
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