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Confederate Statuary: The Difficulty of Preserving Contested Historical Monuments
Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2019 Removing public monuments from their prominent locations is an act that is likely to cause considerable controversy under most circumstances. This is particularly true when the ideology those monuments were erected to promote is hotly contested within ...
Clinton Jacob Buhler
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Confederate Monuments, Public Memory, and Public History
Panorama, 2018 Dell Upton follows up on the theme of his current book, What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (Yale University Press) by asking a team of individuals critically engaged with public art, memory, and the ...
Dell Upton
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Heritage and Hate: Teaching Confederate Monuments with Archives
Panorama, 2019 Akela Reason
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Confronting Confederate Monuments: Place-Based Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Preaching [PDF]
Religions“Space wins” is a long-held homiletical maxim. Usually, this means that architecture and pulpit style influence how sermons are delivered and heard. What is less frequently considered is how monuments and memorials affect proclamation in space.
David M. Stark
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The Life and Death of Confederate Monuments
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Confederate monuments have again received increased attention in the aftermath of George Floyd’s tragic death in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020. Momentum, and shifting public opinion, seem to be assisting advocates for the removal of these problematic monuments across the country.
Jessica Owley, Jess R. Phelps
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Exposure to Confederate Monuments: The Political Effect of Non-Intervention [PDF]
British Journal of Political ScienceAbstract What is the effect of exposure to contested commemorations? Previous research has mostly found that removing these objects generates backlash. However, I argue that non-intervention can itself have detrimental effects as citizens are exposed to them in their daily lives.
Ana Ruipérez Núñez
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Set in Stone? Predicting Confederate Monument Removal [PDF]
PS: Political Science & Politics, 2020 ABSTRACTRecent events have led to a renewed conversation surrounding the relevance and potential removal of Confederate monuments around the country, and several monuments have already been removed. However, we have little insight to explain why some monuments have been removed while others remain.
Andrea Benjamin +4 more
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Law in the Shadows of Confederate Monuments
Michigan Journal of Race & Law, 2021 Hundreds of Confederate monuments stand across the United States. In recent years, leading historians have come forward to clarify that these statues were erected not just as memorials but to express white supremacist intimidation in times of racially oppressive conduct.
Deborah R. Gerhardt
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Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021 Henderson K +4 more
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Growing Up in the Shadow of Confederate Monuments
Common Knowledge, 2021 Abstract Drawing on her memories of growing up in a racially segregated South, the author argues not so much for the removal and erasure of Confederate memorials as for mutilating them or retaining a version of their presence glossed with an explanation for their rejection.
Caroline Walker Bynum
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