Anamnestic and Anagnoretic Approaches to Historical Memory: Confederate Monuments, Violence, and the American Cultural Divide.
Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” demonstration rallied against the campaign to remove Confederate monuments, triggered by the 2015 murders at Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church by a White supremacist intent on instigating a race war. This article addresses the Confederate monument controversy...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Race & Policy (Old Dominion University) Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 5 - 24 |
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Old Dominion University, Consortium for Research on Race, Diversity & Policy
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