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Monumental changes: The civic harm argument for the removal of Confederate monuments

Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2021
Winston Thompson
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS

Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2020
AbstractConfederate monuments are a contested piece of the public landscape. Debates generally focus on the division between “heritage” and “hate,” but some scholars have argued that the meaning of monuments is more complex. There is little research examining variation among Confederate monuments, but this may be critical to understanding their social ...
Heather A. O’Connell, Danequa L. Forrest   +1 more
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Reading Confederate Monuments

2022
This collection of essays written by literary and cultural critics addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public to be able to read and interpret literal and cultural Confederate monuments pervading life in the contemporary United States.
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Confederate monuments and the problem of forgetting

cultural geographies, 2018
Those advocating the removal of US Confederate monuments have generally relied on the claim that because the ideas these monuments represent (i.e. White supremacy) have no legitimate place in political discourse, the monuments should be removed from public space.
Benjamin Forest, Juliet Johnson
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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.
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Are Confederate Monuments Racist?

International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2001
I offer a way of classifying Confederate monuments and two ways of extracting meaning from these monuments. A few of them are racist on one of the two interpretations. Most of them, in the final analysis, implicitly acknowledge racial equality by extolling in African Americans the same virtues to which southern whites themselves aspired. Toppling those
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Teaching Confederate Monuments as American Literature

2022
This chapter outlines a close reading assignment in which students researched the history and reception of the local Confederate monument in Sherman, Texas. This place-based assignment can be built into any number of US literature courses-surveys, topics courses, and seminars-and adapted to any community or campus with a Confederate monument or access ...
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MEANINGS AND IMPACTS OF CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS IN THE U.S. SOUTH

Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2020
AbstractHow do citizens interpret contentious symbols that pervade their community? And what downstream effects does state protection of these symbols have on how citizens of different backgrounds feel they belong in their community? We approach these questions through the lens of race and Confederate monuments in the American South.
Lucy Britt, Emily Wager, Tyler Steelman
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Teaching About the Controversy of Confederate Monuments in the South

2021
The Handbook on Teaching Social Issues, 2nd edition, provides teachers and teacher educators with a comprehensive guide to teaching social issues in the classroom. This second edition re-frames the teaching of social issues with a dedicated emphasis on issues of social justice.
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Plato, Socrates, and Confederate Monuments

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AbstractWhat is the best way to respond to monuments in our communities if they represent people who stood for harmful ideas and/or societal structures? I start with the assumption that it would be best for everyone if all of the harmful monuments were removed from our public squares. The more interesting question is: Why would it be best?
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