No common ground Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice

"When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well ove...

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Main Author: Cox, Karen L., 1962- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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245 1 0 |a No common ground :  |b Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice /  |c Karen L. Cox. 
264 1 |a Chapel Hill :  |b The University of North Carolina Press,  |c [2021] 
264 4 |c Ã2021 
300 |a 206 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 23 cm 
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500 |a "A Ferris and Ferris book." 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index. 
505 0 |a Rewriting history in stone -- From bereavement to vindication -- Confederate culture and the struggle for civil rights -- Monuments and the battle for first-class citizenship -- Debating removal in a changing political landscape -- Charleston, Charlottesville, and continued challenges to removal. 
520 |a "When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
650 0 |a Soldiers' monuments  |x Social aspects  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Collective memory  |x Social aspects  |z Southern States. 
650 0 |a Protest movements  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Social movements  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a White supremacy movements  |z Southern States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Racism  |z Southern States  |x History. 
651 0 |a United States  |x History  |y Civil War, 1861-1865  |x Monuments  |x Social aspects  |z Southern States. 
651 0 |a Confederate States of America  |x Historiography. 
651 0 |a Southern States  |x Race relations  |x History. 
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