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What can and can't be said : race, uplift, and monument building in the contemporary South / Dell Upton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300216615
  • 0300216610
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What can and can't be said.DDC classification:
  • 725/.940975 23
LOC classification:
  • E159 .U86 2015e
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index.

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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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.

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