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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2020AbstractConfederate 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 ...
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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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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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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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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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The Problem with “Confederate” Monuments on our Heritage Landscape
Social Science Quarterly, 2021ObjectiveThis article seeks to reframe so‐called Confederate monuments as monuments to the revisionist “Lost Cause.” I define these monuments as a problem for historic preservation that has long been based on a preference for in‐place protection of things “historic.”MethodsI compare Confederate monuments’ original intent with arguments that these are ...
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Plato, Socrates, and Confederate Monuments
ThinkAbstractWhat 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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The (Uncertain) Fate of Baltimore's Confederate Monuments
2016This past January I, an avowed preservationist, made the motion to remove a 129-year-old statue from Baltimore’s prominent Mount Vernon Square. As a member of the Baltimore City Mayor’s Special Commission to Review Baltimore’s Public Confederate Monuments, I encouraged my fellow commissioners to support a recommendation to deaccession the Roger Brooke ...
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Monuments outlive history: Confederate monuments, the legacy of slavery, and black-white inequality
Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2019ABSTRACTThe conceptual linkages among Confederate monuments, slavery, and race suggest that Confederate monuments are relevant for explaining contemporary black–white inequality, yet we have little...
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