Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Cultural trauma and collective memory -- Introduction -- Collective memory -- The place of generation in collective memory -- The cycle of (generational) memory -- 2 Re-membering and forgetting -- Popular memory and popular culture -- 3 Out of Africa: the making of a collective identity -- A new African American Negro -- A New Negro -- Slavery and popular culture -- 4 The Harlem Renaissance and the heritage of slavery -- The changing conditions of community -- Harlem, mecca of the New Negro: from trauma to triumph -- Representation and memory: high culture and low -- Visualizing the New Negro -- 5 Memory and representation -- Institutionalizing the progressive narrative -- Mediating race -- Black-oriented radio -- Negotiating the meaning of migration -- War: the end of Depression -- Black nationalism and the tragic narrative -- The original people -- 6 Civil rights and black nationalism: the post-war generation -- Context -- Black power -- Re-framing the tragic narrative -- Secular nationalism: cultural and political -- The civil rights movement and the progressive narrative -- Representing the movement and the memory of slavery -- Popular culture -- Notes -- 1 Cultural trauma and collective memory -- 2 Re-membering and forgetting -- 3 Out of Africa: the making of a collective identity -- 4 The Harlem Renaissance and the heritage of slavery -- 5 Memory and representation -- 6 Civil rights and black nationalism: the post-war generation -- References -- Index.