No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice

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Label

No common ground : Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice

Title remainder

Confederate monuments and the ongoing fight for racial justice

Statement of responsibility

Karen L. Cox

Creator

• Cox, Karen L., 1962-

Author

• Cox, Karen L., 1962-

Subject

• Confederate States of America -- Historiography
• Historiography
• History
• Protest movements
• Protest movements -- Southern States -- History
• Race relations
• Racism
• Racism -- Southern States -- History
• Social movements
• 1861-1865
• Soldiers' monuments -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History
• Southern States
• Southern States -- Race relations | History
• United States
• United States -- Confederate States of America
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Monuments | Social aspects -- Southern States
• White supremacy movements
• White supremacy movements -- Southern States -- History
• Social movements -- Southern States -- History
• Collective memory -- Social aspects -- Southern States

Genre

• History

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

Cataloging source

NcU/DLC

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

bibliography

Target audience

adult