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Dell Upton

Description: What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the...

What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

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Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21067

Abbreviations

AAHMC	African American History Monument Commission (Columbia, SC)
AAMA	African American Monument Association (Savannah, GA)
ADAH	Alabama Division of Archives and History
AJC	Atlanta Journal-Constitution
BAH	Birmingham Age-Herald
BN	Birmingham News
BPH	Birmingham Post-Herald
BPL	Birmingham Public Library
CS	The State (Columbia, SC)
FLS	Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA)
JCL	Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
MA	Montgomery Advertiser
NAACP	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
ND	Neshoba Democrat (Philadelphia, MS)
NOPL	New Orleans Public Library
NYT	New York Times
RMT	Rocky Mount Telegram
RNO	Raleigh News and Observer
RTD	Richmond Times-Dispatch
SCLC	Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCV	Sons of Confederate Veterans
SMN	Savannah Morning News
STJ	Selma Times-Journal
TP	Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
UDC	United Daughters of the Confederacy
WP	Washington Post

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BOOKWhat Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South

Dell Upton

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00240

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21055

An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and Black history that have been erected in the American South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of African Americans in contemporary Southern society while showing how the construction of such monuments frequently exposes the myth that racial differences have been overcome.

Examining monuments whose creation has been particularly contentious, from the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial in Washington, D.C., to more obscure memorials such as the so-called "multicultural monument" in Bowling Green, Virginia, Dell Upton shows that monument builders must contend not only with varied interpretations of the African-American past but also with the continuing presence of White supremacy—not only in its traditional forms but also in the subtler, more recent assumptions that Whites are neutral arbiters of what is fair and accurate in such monuments.

Upton argues that Southerners, White and Black, share a convenient fiction—a “dual heritage” that allows them to acknowledge the Black past without relinquishing cherished White historical mythologies. In his conclusion, Upton considers how these two pasts might be reimagined and memorialized as a single Southern American history.

*For the A&AePortal edition of this book, the author's black-and-white images were replaced with color.*

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Dell Upton

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date November 2015 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300211757

EISBN 9780300262261

Illustrations 59

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