Southern Past A Clash of Race and Memory

Name: Southern Past A Clash of Race and Memory
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ISBN: 9780674027213

ISBN-10: 0674027213

ISBN-13: 9780674027213

Edition: 2005

Authors: W. Fitzhugh Brundage

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Duty Peculiarly Fitting to Women



Celebrating Black Memory in the Postbellum South



Archiving White Memory



Black Remembrance in the Age of Jim Crow



Exhibiting Southernness in a New Century



Black Memorials and the Bulldozer Revolution



Contested History in the Sunbelt South


Conclusion


Notes


Index