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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Kirk Savage
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Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy
The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.
Kundenbewertungen
Military service, Politics, Sojourner Truth, Citizenship, Militarism, The Other Hand, Exclusion, Narrative, Public space, Laborer, War memorial, Confederate States of America, Harriet Hosmer, Nationality, Black people, Social death, White people, Equestrian statue, John C. Calhoun, Abolitionism, Sculpture, Orlando Patterson, Oppression, Ideology, Lincoln Memorial, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Institution, Vinnie Ream, Militia, Pediment, Manumission, Newspaper, The New York Times, Winthrop Jordan, Cemetery, Monument Avenue, Slavery, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Quincy Adams Ward, Criticism, Politician, William Wetmore Story, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Racism, Collective memory, Masculinity, Physiognomy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Statue, Allegory, Freedman, George Washington Williams, Writing, Union Army, Caricature, Emblem, Robert Gould Shaw, Warfare, Apollo Belvedere, Lorado Taft, African Americans, Black body, Illustration, White supremacy, Harper's Weekly, The Various, Expatriate, Racial hierarchy, Lincoln Monument (Dixon, Illinois), William Dean Howells