UID:
almafu_9959235107702883
Format:
1 online resource (278 p.)
ISBN:
0-300-26226-4
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0-300-21661-0
Content:
An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society. The author cogently argues that these public memorials, ranging from the famous to the obscure, have emerged from, and speak directly to, the region's complex racial politics since monument builders have had to contend with widely varied interpretations of the African American past as well as a continuing presence of white supremacist attitudes and monuments.
Note:
Includes index.
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Introduction: what can an can't be said -- Dual heritage -- Accentuate the positive -- A stern-faced, twenty-eight-foot-tall black man -- A place of revolution and reconciliation -- What can and can't be said: beyond civil rights -- What might be said -- Appendix: Caroline County, Virginia, multicultural monument inscriptions.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-21175-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300216615
