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Mobile, Alabama’s Joe Cain Procession
Journal of Festive Studies, 2021 This article investigates the contradictions that characterize Mobile, Alabama’s Joe Cain Day celebration. We look at the official narratives that established Mobile’s Mardi Gras origin myths and the event’s tradition invention in 1967 with a People’s ...
Emily Ruth Allen, Isabel Machado
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Confederate War Grief Transformed: the Openness of Memorials to New Meanings
In_Bo, 2018 Civil War memorials in the United States represent the difficult national memory of a still contested internecine war over slavery, social equity, and public values. Today there is a heated debate about physical monuments honoring Confederate leaders and
Phoebe Crisman
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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.
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Removal of Confederate Monuments as a Reflection of Contemporary Southern Reintegration [PDF]
Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Istoriya, 2019 exaly +2 more sources
Panorama, 2018 Confederate Monuments and the Inevitable Forces of Change Contrary to popular perception, monuments are not immutable or unchanging edifices; instead, there can be adjustments and adaptations according to the circumstances of their environments.
Sarah Beetham
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Juxtapositioned Memory: Lost Cause Statues and Sites of Lynching
Modern Languages Open, 2020 The paper explores both ‘official’ historical attempts to counter Lost Cause narratives of the former Confederacy, but also the moves towards re-memorialization in the form of statue removal as well as sites that bring forth what has been lost or ...
Brent Steele
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Monumental refraction: Monuments, identity, and historical consciousness
Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2020 Over the past several years, controversies have emerged throughout the U.S. South over the future of monuments to Confederate leaders. The Confederacy was an attempt to create a new republic in the American South with enslavement as its cornerstone.
Gabriel A. Reich
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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.
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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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“Little of Artistic Merit?”: The Art of the American South
Panorama, 2020 As Americanists, reckoning with the South might also help us to understand its diverse regional histories and reflect upon broader national contemporary discourses, both from within and without.
Naomi Slipp
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