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Author Upton, Dell, author

Title What can and can't be said : race, uplift, and monument building in the contemporary South / Dell Upton
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) : 59 illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction: what can an can't be said -- Dual heritage -- Accentuate the positive -- A stern-faced, twenty-eight-foot-tall black man -- A place of revolution and reconciliation -- What can and can't be said: beyond civil rights -- What might be said -- Appendix: Caroline County, Virginia, multicultural monument inscriptions
Summary An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society. The author cogently argues that these public memorials, ranging from the famous to the obscure, have emerged from, and speak directly to, the region's complex racial politics since monument builders have had to contend with widely varied interpretations of the African American past as well as a continuing presence of white supremacist attitudes and monuments
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index
Notes In English
Print version record and online resource (A & AePortal, viewed on March 18, 2021)
Subject Monuments -- Political aspects -- Southern States
Civil rights movements -- Monuments -- Southern States
Social Science -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
History -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV).
Architecture -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
Monuments -- Political aspects
Southern States
Form Electronic book
Author Yale University Press, publisher.
ISBN 9780300262261
0300262264
0300216610
9780300216615