The punished self
Subtitle: surviving slavery in the colonial South
By: Alex Bontemps.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Slaves -- Southern States -- Psychology; Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources; Slavery -- Southern States -- Psychological aspects; Identity (Psychology) -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century; Self-preservation -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century; African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 18th century; Southern States -- Race relations -- Psychological aspects; Southern States -- Race relations -- Sources; Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Genres: Sources.
Description: "The Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on blacks' sense of self. Alex Bontemps explores slavery's effects on the captives' framework of self-awareness and understanding. Whites wanted blacks to act out the role "Negro," forcing blacks into a basic dilemma of identity: How to retain an individualized sense of self under the intense pressure to be Negro? Bontemps addresses this dynamic in The Punished Self."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.