Monumental harm : reckoning with Jim Crow era Confederate monuments /

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"Professor of Law at Catholic University Roger C. Hartley provides a thorough overview of the issue of Confederate monuments and their problematic presence on the American landscape. He examines and dissects competing claims regarding the removal of these monuments from public spaces ... mov[in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hartley, Roger C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2021]
Temas:
1861-1865
Soldiers' monuments > Social aspects > Southern States.
Collective memory > Social aspects > Southern States.
Racism > Southern States.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions.
Monuments commémoratifs militaires > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud)
Mémoire collective > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud)
Racisme > États-Unis (Sud)
Noirs américains > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Racism.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Monuments > Social aspects > Southern States.
Southern States > Race relations.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Act or Leave the Monuments Undisturbed?
  • 1. History and Memory Distinguished
  • 2. The Distortion-of-History Approach: The Cult of the Lost Cause
  • 3. The Warping-of-History Approach: The Rise of Monument Mania
  • 4. The Racial-Reckoning Approach: The Stereotyping and Erasure Functions of Confederate Monuments
  • 5. Confederate Monuments and Contemporary Institutional Racism
  • II. The Disposition: Destroy, Contextualize, or Relocate the Confederate Monument?
  • 6. The Case Against Monument Destruction
  • 7. The Trouble with Contextualization
  • 8. Relocation and Its Critics
  • III. Who Decides?
  • 9. The Legal Framework Protecting Confederate Monuments
  • Conclusion
  • Cases Cited
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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