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Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance The fight over Confederate monuments has fueled lawsuits, protests, counterprotests, arrests, even terrorism, as we painfully saw in August 2017 in Charlottesville, VA. The fight rests on a debate over whether these monuments represent racism (“hate”) or something ostensibly devoid of racism (“heritage,” “Southern pride”). Herein,
Kyshia Henderson +2 more
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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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Zarch, 2021 Traditionally, historic preservation has aimed to protect “collective memory,”—references to a past accepted as commonly shared and collectively commemorated.
Shelby D. Green
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Counter-Ceremonial: Contemporary Artists and Queen Victoria Monuments
19, 2022 As the embodiment of empire, Victoria became a symbol of allegiance and resistance, love and loathing. This is nowhere more apparent than in the many monuments memorializing her across the United Kingdom and around the world.
Michael Hatt
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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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Studies in Social Justice, 2023 Almost 160 years after the American Civil War, where the Union defeated the Confederacy and ended slavery in the United States, approximately 1,910 tributes remain to Confederate military leaders located on public property in the 11 original Confederate
Susan Sarapin +3 more
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Alive American History: Сivil War of Monuments
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2018 The article analyzes the origins and causes of public resistance in the United States about the issue of preservation of monuments, symbolizing the period of the Confederacy in the U.S. South during the Civil war (1861-1865).
N. M. TRAVKINA
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After #Charlottesville: Interrogating our Racist Past in the Trump Era
Radical Teacher, 2018 In wake of the violent and deadly events in Charlottesville and President Donald Trump’s response in which he effectively defended the Neo-Nazis and Confederate monuments, it’s important that college students understand the Lost Cause movement, the ...
Travis Boyce
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