{"product_id":"been-coming-through-some-hard-times-race-history-and-memory-in-western-kentucky-9781621901549","title":"Been Coming Through Some Hard Times: Race, History, and Memory in Western Kentucky","description":"\"Glazier combines ethnography, history, and memory studies to construct a solid study of race relations in microcosm.\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the earliest days when enslaved people were brought to western Kentucky, the descendants of both slaves and slave owners in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, have continued to inhabit the same social and historic space. Part ethnography and part historical narrative, \u003ci\u003eBeen Coming through Some Hard Times\u003c\/i\u003e offers a penetrating look at this southern town and the surrounding counties, delving particularly into the ways in which its inhabitants have remembered and publicly represented race relations in their community. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Glazier's personal investment in this subject is clear. \u003ci\u003eBeen Coming through Some Hard Times\u003c\/i\u003e began as an exploration of the life of James Bass, an African American who settled in Hopkinsville in 1890 and whose daughter, Idella Bass, cared for Glazier as a child. Her remarkable life profoundly influenced Glazier and led him to investigate her family's roots in the town. This personal dimension makes Glazier's ethnohistorical account especially nuanced and moving. Here is a uniquely revealing look at how the racial injustices of the past impinge quietly but insidiously upon the present in a distinctive, understudied region. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a new foreword, historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage writes: \"[Glazier] reveals the sinews of family, community, and heritage that bind--and divide--the contemporary residents of Christian County. We learn of the enduring legacies of the past that permeate contemporary life there, and by the end of the book Glazier demonstrates that many of the traditions that loom largest in western Kentucky are not those commonly associated with the mythic South.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJACK GLAZIER\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of anthropology at Oberlin College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Dispersing the Ghetto: The Relocation of Jewish Immigrants across America\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eLand and the Uses of Tradition among the Mbeere of Kenya\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Univ Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918181765394,"sku":"9781621901549","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10d56413-f666-48a2-b0ea-fd3f787db296.jpg?v=1738879093","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/been-coming-through-some-hard-times-race-history-and-memory-in-western-kentucky-9781621901549","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}