CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Colbert, Kedarious Omar |
|---|---|
| Title | NED E. WILLIAMS: MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND TRAUMA |
| Summary | In a period of unprecedented school closures across the United States, one East Texas community, Longview, Texas is rebuilding every school in the district. Among these schools is a formal segregated school closed in 1969 –Ned E. Williams. While school administrators saw this ‘new’ school as the facilitation of population growth, many community members identified the place with a particular legacy, identity and set of memories. The rebirth of Ned E. Williams is involks the nostalgic period of childhood memories and an incredicle education. While the abundance of good memories emerges, this rebirth is the revival of unwarranted memories of segregation and oppression in America.However, this thesis examines how one small community destabilized due the process of cultural trauma as a result of the closure of the school that anchored the town. Moreover, it seeks to explore how school clousures in communities of color may initiate the process of trauma.Through four in depth interviews with alumni, the thesis navigated, the African American identity, collective memory, and cultural trauma laced in one school founded by a former slave named Ned E. Williams. |
| Supervisor | Daniel Monterescu |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/colbert_kedarious.pdf |
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