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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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Transatlantica, 2018 In the wake of the Charleston (June 17, 2015) and Charlottesville (August 12, 2017) tragedies, part of the American public started demanding that monuments erected in praise of Confederate leaders, mostly at the turn of the twentieth century, be removed.
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
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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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The Ethics of Racist Monuments [PDF]
, 2018 In this chapter we focus on the debate over publicly-maintained racist monuments as it manifests in the mid-2010s Anglosphere, primarily in the US (chiefly regarding the over 700 monuments devoted to the Confederacy), but to some degree also in Britain ...
Demetriou, Dan, Wingo, Ajume
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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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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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A Case for Removing Confederate Monuments [PDF]
, 2020 A particularly important, pressing, philosophical question concerns whether Confederate monuments ought to be removed. More precisely, one may wonder whether a certain group, viz.
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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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Ashes of Our Fathers: Racist Monuments and the Tribal Right [PDF]
, 2020 [Updated 2/23/21: complete chapter scan] In this chapter I sketch a rightist approach to monumentary policy in a diverse polity beleaguered by old ethnic grievances. I begin by noting the importance of tribalism, memorialization, and social trust. I then
Demetriou, Dan
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