The Burden of Racial Innocence: British-Invasion Rock Memoirs and the U.S. South

Mid-sixties British rock musicians have rationalized their firsthand experience and profitable interactions with American racial segregation by adopting a stance of racial innocence, or a belief that youth and virtue make one immune to charges of complicity with organized structures of racism. This...

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Main Author: Matthew Sutton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Groningen Press 2022-04-01
Series:European Journal of Life Writing
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Online Access:https://ejlw.eu/article/view/38627