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Confederate monuments and the problem of forgetting
cultural geographies, 2018Those 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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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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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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Growing Up in the Shadow of Confederate Monuments
Common Knowledge, 2021Abstract 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, 2001I 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
2022This 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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The Myth of the Passive Woman in Confederate Monuments
Since 1932, one of the most visually powerful monuments to the Southern cause in the Civil War has stood on the waterfront of Charleston, South Carolina. It depicts a placid woman standing behind a heroic male solider. She represents the city while presenting, as in other Confederate monuments featuring female forms, the passive virtues of Southern ...openaire +1 more source
A Spatiotemporal Examination of Confederate Monuments in the Former Confederacy
The Public HistorianThis article examines Confederate monuments, statues, and plaques in the eleven states of the former Confederacy based on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Whose Heritage” data. Focusing on commemorative trends over time, this research seeks to undermine certain assumptions about the history of Confederate monuments in the South.
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Effects of Historical Contextualization of Confederate Monuments in North Carolina
2020There is a fundamental divide between the views of proponents of Confederate monuments and those who consider them symbols of white supremacy. Exploring the intricacies of this debate, this master’s paper will address the following questions: Are proponents of Confederate monuments aware of the memorials’ ties to historical white supremacy? And if not,
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Public Confederate Monuments and Racial Identity among White Americans
Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, 2021Ryan D Talbert, C André Christie-Mizell
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Monuments outlive history: Confederate monuments, the legacy of slavery, and black-white inequality
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020Heather A O'Connell
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