Name/Title
Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era Confederate MonumentsEntry/Object ID
2021.004.1Description
Provides a thorough overview of the issue of Confederate monuments and their problematic presence on the American landscape through an examination of the competing claims regarding the removal of these monuments from public spaces.
Contents include:
I: Act or leave monuments undisturbed? : History and memory distinguished -- The distortion-of-history approach: the cult of the Lost Cause -- The warping-of-history approach: the rise of monument mania -- The racial-reckoning approach: the stereotyping and erasure functions of Confederate monuments -- Confederate monuments and contemporary institutional racism
II: The disposition: destroy, contextualize, or relocate the Confederate monument: The case against monument destruction -- The trouble with contextualization -- Relocation and its critics
III: Who decides? : The legal framework protecting Confederate monuments
xvi, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. (softcover)Collection
HCF Oral History CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2021.004Source or Donor
Archives/Library Purchases (2021)Acquisition Method
PurchasedCredit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund PurchaseLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Lowcountry Digital Library, Soldiers' monuments--Social aspects--Southern States, Collective memory--Social aspects--Southern States, Racism--Southern States, African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments--Social aspects--Southern States, Southern States--Race relations, African Americans--Social conditionsBook Details
Author
Hartley, Roger C.Publisher
University of South Carolina PressDate Published
2021Call No.
E645 .H37 2021ISBN
9781643361697Notes
Copy No.: 1Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General Notes
Note
Notes: By Roger C. Hartley.
Includes bibliographical references and index.Created By
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April 5, 2023