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No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice
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Cox, Karen L., 1962-
- Publisher:
- The University of North Carolina Press,
- Pub date:
- [2021]
- Description:
- 206 pages :
- ISBN:
- 9781469662671
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2 copies currently available - Gayton Library and Libbie Mill Library.
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No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice
Cox, Karen L., 1962-
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No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice
Cox, Karen L., 1962-
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Personal Author:
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Cox, Karen L., 1962-
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Title:
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No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice / Karen L. Cox.
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Publication Info:
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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©2021
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Physical descrip:
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206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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General Note:
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"A Ferris and Ferris book"-- Title page.
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Contents:
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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.
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Summary:
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"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. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals"-- Publisher's description.
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Held by:
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GAYTON LIBBIEMILL
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Subject term:
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Soldiers' monuments--Social aspects--Southern States--History.
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Collective memory--Social aspects--Southern States.
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Protest movements--Southern States--History.
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Social movements--Southern States--History.
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White supremacy movements--Southern States--History.
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Racism--Southern States--History.
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Geographic term:
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments--Social aspects--Southern States.
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Geographic term:
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Confederate States of America--Historiography.
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Geographic term:
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Southern States--Race relations--History.
