Main entry:

Upton, Dell, author.

Title & Author:

What can and can't be said : race, uplift, and monument building in the contemporary South / Dell Upton.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xi, 265 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index.
Introduction: what can an can't be said -- Dual heritage -- Accentuate the positive -- A stern-faced, twenty-eight-foot-tall black man -- A place of revolution and reconciliation -- What can and can't be said: beyond civil rights -- What might be said -- Appendix: Caroline County, Virginia, multicultural monument inscriptions.

Summary:

"An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society. The author cogently argues that these public memorials, ranging from the famous to the obscure, have emerged from, and speak directly to, the region's complex racial politics since monument builders have had to contend with widely varied interpretations of the African American past as well as a continuing presence of white supremacist attitudes and monuments."--Book jacket.

ISBN:

9780300211757 (hardcover)
0300211759 (hardcover)

Subject:

Monuments Political aspects Southern States.
Civil rights movements Monuments Southern States.
Monuments Aspect politique États-Unis (Sud)
Mouvements des droits de l'homme Monuments États-Unis (Sud)
Monuments Political aspects.
Southern States.

Added entries:

What can and cannot be said

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291039
Call No.: BIB 234336
Status: Available