Format:
1 online resource (152 pages)
ISBN:
9783030537715
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: US Cities' Agentic Role in Twenty-First-Century Memory and Monument Wars -- The Rhetorical Dimensions of Memoryscapes and Cityscapes -- The City as Agentic in Salient Twenty-First-Century Monument Wars -- Why Study New York's 9/11 Memorial and Museum, Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee Statue Removal Efforts, or Montgomery's National Memorial for Peace and Justice? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: The Fortification of New York City: Post-9/11 Memorialization and the Localization of the War on Terror -- The Wounds of 9/11/01: The Chronotope of Dust -- Turf Wars: The Battles for Securitized New York Space Between the NYPD and FDNY -- Monumentalizing Resilience: The Continuation of NYPD's Fortification of New York City -- American Reactions to the Militarization of New York City -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Civil Lawfare, Remembrances of Lost Causes, and Charlottesville's Confederate Monument Controversies -- Lost Cause Mythologizing During the First Post-Reconstruction Period, 1877-1900 -- The Revival of Interest in the KKK and Transmutation of Lost Cause Rhetorics, 1901-1926 -- Charlottesville's Beautification Movements, Eugenics, and the Preservation of Confederate Cityscapes -- Charlottesville's Participation in The South's Massive Resistance to 1950s and 1960s Civil Rights Legislation -- American Multiculturalism, African American Empowerment, and the Rise of Confederate Memorial Removal Movements, 1990-2016 -- Charlottesville, 2017-Mediated Events, Talk of White Supremacy and the Alt-Right, and the "Invasion" of a Major City -- Civil Lawfare and Court Involvement in Charlottesville's Monument Wars, 2017-2020 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Montgomery, "Racial Terror" Lynching Remembrances, and Municipal Quests for American Truth and Reconciliation -- The Old Alabama Town Façade.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030537708
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030537708
Language:
English
Keywords:
New York, NY
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Charlottesville, Va.
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Montgomery, Ala.
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Kriegerdenkmal
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Gedenkstätte
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
Author information:
Hasian, Marouf Arif 1958-
