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17%OFFW. Fitzhugh Brundage - The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory - 9780674027213 - V9780674027213
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The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory

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Description for The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory Paperback. Since the Civil War, whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. This title 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. Num Pages: 432 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 133 x 32. Weight in Grams: 490.

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674027213
SKU
V9780674027213
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About W. Fitzhugh Brundage
W. Fitzhugh Brundage is William B. Umstead Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his present work on torture in American history. Brundage has written extensively on racial inequality and violence, from segregation to lynching.

Reviews for The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
Fitzhugh Brundage's The Southern Past is an extraordinarily ambitious and important book, a true achievement by an immensely talented historian. This book should reach a wide audience with its story of how the past has been shaped and reshaped in the South through usable narratives, commodities, curriculums, parades, books, sacred sites, vacant lots, real politics, and heroic icons on ... Read more

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