Micki Mcelya
Biographic Data
| ID | 811692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micki Mcelya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micki |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcelya |
| SIGNATURE | MCELYA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Trashing the Presidency
The Heavens Might Crack
The Heavens Might Crack is a timely book for general readers that seeks to show the more complicated, radical, international, and commonly reviled Martin Luther King Jr. than most people know today—and to explain this lack in the politics of King's apotheosis and America's abiding commitment to violent white supremacy. It is an admirable aim that Jason Sokol largely achieves in his compelling and often-moving book exploring the “wide range of res…
Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
If we are to fully understand how slavery survived legal abolition, we must grapple with the work that abolition has left undone, and dismantle the structures that abolition has left in place. Child Slavery before and after Emancipation seeks to enable a vital conversation between historical and modern slavery studies - two fields that have traditionally run along parallel tracks rather than in relation to one another. In this collection, Anna Ma…
Memorials to Shattered Myths
When Barack Obama awarded Maya Lin the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 22, 2016, he lauded her most famous work's focus on “individual lives” and losses, explaining that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has changed the way we think about monuments, but also about how we think about sacrifice, and patriotism, and ourselves. Maya has given us more than just places for remembering—she has created places for us to make new memories. Her [works…
The Politics of Mourning
Arlington National Cemetery is America’s most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlington’s symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity. Arlington commemorates sacrifices made in the nation’s wars and armed conflicts. Yet it has always been a…
From Storefront to Monument
Journal Article From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement Get access Andrea A. Burns. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. xii, 249 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1330–1331, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav101 Published: 01 March 2015
"To "Choose Our Better History
To "Choose Our Better History":Assessing the Obama Presidency in Real Time Micki McElya (bio) The Promise: President Obama, Year One. By Jonathan Alter. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 480 pages. $28.00 (cloth). The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America. By Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 376 pages. $27.00 (cloth). The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. By David Remnick.…
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens
Rebecca Sharpless's history of African American women working as cooks “in other women's kitchens” is an invaluable addition to the scholarship on U.S. women's and labor history as well as studies of segregation, racial formation, and the South. Spanning the period from emancipation to the civil rights era, the book examines the changes and staggering continuities in the conditions of domestic labor. Isolated within white domestic spaces, black c…
Remembering 9/11's Pentagon Victims and Reframing History in Arlington National Cemetery
In Arlington National Cemetery on September 12, 2002, the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, presided over the burial with full military honors of a single casket containing unidentified remains intended to represent all 184 victims of the 9/11 Pentagon attack, a number that included civilian and military personnel on the ground and passengers on American Airlines Flight 77. Their collective grave, marked by a four-and-a-half-foot granite mon…
Clinging to Mammy
Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya exposes the power and reach of this myth in advertising, films, and literature about the South, and in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement
Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945
Journal Article Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945 Get access Holloway Pippa. Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xi, 258 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Micki McElya Micki McElya University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Janua…
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens
Rebecca Sharpless's history of African American women working as cooks “in other women's kitchens” is an invaluable addition to the scholarship on U.S. women's and labor history as well as studies of segregation, racial formation, and the South. Spanning the period from emancipation to the civil rights era, the book examines the changes and staggering continuities in the conditions of domestic labor. Isolated within white domestic spaces, black c…
Remembering 9/11's Pentagon Victims and Reframing History in Arlington National Cemetery
In Arlington National Cemetery on September 12, 2002, the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, presided over the burial with full military honors of a single casket containing unidentified remains intended to represent all 184 victims of the 9/11 Pentagon attack, a number that included civilian and military personnel on the ground and passengers on American Airlines Flight 77. Their collective grave, marked by a four-and-a-half-foot granite mon…
Clinging to Mammy
Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya exposes the power and reach of this myth in advertising, films, and literature about the South, and in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement
Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945
Journal Article Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945 Get access Holloway Pippa. Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xi, 258 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Micki McElya Micki McElya University of Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Janua…
"To "Choose Our Better History
To "Choose Our Better History":Assessing the Obama Presidency in Real Time Micki McElya (bio) The Promise: President Obama, Year One. By Jonathan Alter. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 480 pages. $28.00 (cloth). The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America. By Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 376 pages. $27.00 (cloth). The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. By David Remnick.…
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens
Rebecca Sharpless's history of African American women working as cooks “in other women's kitchens” is an invaluable addition to the scholarship on U.S. women's and labor history as well as studies of segregation, racial formation, and the South. Spanning the period from emancipation to the civil rights era, the book examines the changes and staggering continuities in the conditions of domestic labor. Isolated within white domestic spaces, black c…
Remembering 9/11's Pentagon Victims and Reframing History in Arlington National Cemetery
In Arlington National Cemetery on September 12, 2002, the defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, presided over the burial with full military honors of a single casket containing unidentified remains intended to represent all 184 victims of the 9/11 Pentagon attack, a number that included civilian and military personnel on the ground and passengers on American Airlines Flight 77. Their collective grave, marked by a four-and-a-half-foot granite mon…
From Storefront to Monument
Journal Article From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement Get access Andrea A. Burns. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. xii, 249 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Paper, $24.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1330–1331, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav101 Published: 01 March 2015
The Politics of Mourning
Arlington National Cemetery is America’s most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlington’s symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity. Arlington commemorates sacrifices made in the nation’s wars and armed conflicts. Yet it has always been a…
Child Slavery before and after Emancipation
If we are to fully understand how slavery survived legal abolition, we must grapple with the work that abolition has left undone, and dismantle the structures that abolition has left in place. Child Slavery before and after Emancipation seeks to enable a vital conversation between historical and modern slavery studies - two fields that have traditionally run along parallel tracks rather than in relation to one another. In this collection, Anna Ma…
Memorials to Shattered Myths
When Barack Obama awarded Maya Lin the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 22, 2016, he lauded her most famous work's focus on “individual lives” and losses, explaining that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has changed the way we think about monuments, but also about how we think about sacrifice, and patriotism, and ourselves. Maya has given us more than just places for remembering—she has created places for us to make new memories. Her [works…
The Heavens Might Crack
The Heavens Might Crack is a timely book for general readers that seeks to show the more complicated, radical, international, and commonly reviled Martin Luther King Jr. than most people know today—and to explain this lack in the politics of King's apotheosis and America's abiding commitment to violent white supremacy. It is an admirable aim that Jason Sokol largely achieves in his compelling and often-moving book exploring the “wide range of res…
Trashing the Presidency
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