The Psychic Hold of Slavery Legacies in American Expressive Culture

"Suggesting that even the violence against blacks that fueled the Black Lives Matter movement is on the slavery continuum, this volume argues that slavery continues to shape the US's fundamental psychology and its systemic racial hierarchy. A postracial US is yet to come ... Recommended" (Choice) "This collection is a timely, fascinating, often brilliant scholarly intervention in matters central both to the range of scholars and artists whose work it discusses and to the field of Black Studies." - Michael Awkward (author of Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory & Culture after King) "These intelligent and provocative essays wonderfully show us what a rich array of art forms (films, literature, television, and cartoons) have to say about what slavery has done and undone." - Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (author of The End of American Lynching and A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past) "[The Psychic Hold of Slavery] is well written and well organized. The proficiency and writing style of the contributors serves to reassure readers that they are among knowledgeable experts in the field... This is a must read book for any African American Studies course." (Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences)