{"product_id":"graphic-memories-of-the-civil-rights-movement-1","title":"Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020\u003cbr\u003e A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of America’s civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic novels and graphic memoirs present an opportunity to push against the consensus and create a more complete history. \u003ci\u003eGraphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement\u003c\/i\u003e showcases five vivid examples of this:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHo Che Anderson's \u003ci\u003eKing \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), which complicates the standard biography of Martin Luther King Jr.; Congressman John Lewis's three-volume memoir, \u003ci\u003eMarch \u003c\/i\u003e(2013–2016); \u003ci\u003eDarkroom \u003c\/i\u003e(2012), by Lila Quintero Weaver, in which the author recalls her Argentinian father’s participation in the movement and her childhood as an immigrant in the South; the bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of Our Friends,\u003c\/i\u003e by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell (2012), set in Houston's Third Ward in 1967; and Howard Cruse's \u003ci\u003eStuck Rubber Baby \u003c\/i\u003e(1995), whose protagonist is a closeted gay man involved in the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn choosing these five works, Jorge Santos also explores how this medium allows readers to participate in collective memory making, and what the books reveal about the process by which history is (re)told, (re)produced, and (re)narrativized. Concluding the work is Santos’s interview with Ho Che Anderson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Jorge J. Santos, Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615161377148,"sku":"9781477318270","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781477318270_38a6ed79-7108-46df-b0a5-de80ebbd2fd9.jpg?v=1741268315","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/graphic-memories-of-the-civil-rights-movement-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}