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No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice, Karen L. Cox

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
206 pages
Note
"A Ferris and Ferris Book."
Contents
  • 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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9781469662671
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No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice
Title
No common ground
Title remainder
Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice
Statement of responsibility
Karen L. Cox
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"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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1962-
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Cox, Karen L.
Dewey number
305.800975
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E645
LC item number
.C698 2021
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
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  • Soldiers' monuments
  • Collective memory
  • Protest movements
  • Social movements
  • White supremacy movements
  • Racism
  • United States
  • Confederate States of America
  • Southern States
  • Historiography
  • Protest movements
  • Race relations
  • Racism
  • Social movements
  • White supremacy movements
  • Southern States
  • United States
  • United States
Target audience
adult
Label
No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice, Karen L. Cox
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Publication
Copyright
Note
"A Ferris and Ferris Book."
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-200) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Control code
on1197847683
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
206 pages
Isbn
9781469662671
Lccn
2020051724
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice, Karen L. Cox
Publication
Copyright
Note
"A Ferris and Ferris Book."
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-200) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Control code
on1197847683
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
206 pages
Isbn
9781469662671
Lccn
2020051724
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations

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