The Southern Past
A Clash of Race and Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19914965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W Fitzhugh Brundage (0000-0001-5163-6824, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 432 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, Grace Elizabeth Hale, 2007 |
| Venue | Southern Past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.4159/9780674028982 |
| OpenAlex | W4252799147 |
| Open Library | OL29577326M |
| ISBN | 9780674028982 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 76 |
Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. Indeed, today's controversies over flying the Confederate flag, renaming schools and streets, and commemorating the Civil War and the civil rights movement are only the latest examples of this ongoing divisive contest over issues of regional identity and heritage. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the power to determine what we remember of the past, and whether that remembrance will honor all Southerners or only select groups. For more than a century after the Civil War, elite white Southerners systematically refined a version of the past that sanctioned their racial privilege and power. In the process, they filled public spaces with museums and monuments that made their version of the past sacrosanct. Yet, even as segregation and racial discrimination worsened, blacks contested the white version of Southern history and demanded inclusion. Streets became sites for elaborate commemorations of emancipation and schools became centers for the study of black history. This counter-memory surged forth, and became a potent inspiration for the civil rights movement and the black struggle to share a common Southern past rather than a divided one. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's searing exploration of how those who have the political power to represent the past simultaneously shape the present and determine the future is a valuable lesson as we confront our national past to meet the challenge of current realities
Aesthetics · Art · Black Power · CONTEST · Elite · Emancipation · Honor · Identity (music) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Privilege (computing) · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 15.85 history of America · Bürgerrechtsbewegung · civilization · Collectief geheugen · Ethnische Beziehungen · Gesellschaft · Group identity · Kollektives Gedächtnis · Memory · race relations · Rassenbeziehung · Rassenvraagstuk · Sezessionskrieg · Social aspects · Social aspects of Memory · Southern states · Soziale Situation · Südstaaten
Atlanta between the Wars
Toward a new future in Civil War memory studies
Patchworking the past
Set in Stone? Predicting Confederate Monument Removal
The Wretched and the Damned
Without Sanctuary
An Analysis of Southern Advertising from the Jimmy Carter Era
Return of the Lost Cause
Exclusion, inclusion, and the politics of Confederate commemoration in the American South
Switching sides but still fighting the Civil War in southern politics
Collective Memory and Racialized Punishment in Schools Named After Confederate Figures
The rise of illiberal memory
Trauma Studies and the Literature of the U.S. South
Urban Dialectics, Misrememberings, and Memory-Work
This Crisis of Our History”
Institutionalizing Counter‐Memories of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
From Countermemory to Collective Memory
Refusing Historical Amnesia
The American South and the Atlantic World
Streets, Sounds and Identity in Interwar Harlem
The Political Work of Leisure
A Methodological Framework for Interpreting Ordinary Landscapes
The Memorialization of Southern Poor White Men's Labor in Rick Bragg's Memoir Trilogy
Confederate Monuments and Anti-Black Stereotypes in the U.S. South
Southern Identity
From Legacy to Memory
"The Contact of Living Souls"
MLK Boulevard
The anatomy of controversy, from Charlottesville to Rome
Racism and Confederate Monument Construction
More than Rocks and Stone
Transforming collective memory
Slavery and Public History at the Big House
Theorizing Ethnic and Racial Movements in the Global Age
Remapping the 38 th Parallel in the Global South
Refighting the Civil War, yet again
Still Back of the Big House
Commemorative Surrogation and the American South's Changing Heritage Landscape
Lineage as Capital
Political Symbols and Social Order
There Would Be No Lynching If It Did Not Start in the Schoolroom”
A company of gentlemen”
Race discourse and the US Confederate Flag
We always knew it was possible’
The Race of a More Perfect Union
Reconciling Sites of Memory and Loss
Interspatialism in the Nineteenth-century South
Reconstructing the South
Picturing the flag in the New South
A Systems Approach to Understanding Community Power in the Debate over Confederate Monuments
Reexamining Confederate symbols displayed on flags and monuments in public spaces
Memorialization as a Mechanism of Power in the Present
Introduction to the Special Issue on Reframing Confederate Monuments
Context of a Contested Landscape
Confederate Monument Inscriptions
The Comparative Politics of Collective Memory
La commémoration de l'esclavage dans l'espace public aux États-Unis
In Them She Built Monuments
From Commemoration to Conviction
Monuments outlive history
| Unique citing works | 60 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |