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Amending our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory is an edited volume presenting original research from established and emerging scholars of public and collective memory. Contributors focus on topics including the memory of race and slavery, wars of oppression, and regional and ethnic identities to interrogate how we as collectives remember, commemorate, discuss, forget, and question what is historically revealed, appropriated, silenced, or concealed from public discourse. Through analyses of a wide range of cultural texts and contexts, contributors to this volume demonstrate the crucial role of communication and media in shaping public opinion—and our collective present more broadly—in an effort to amend our painful histories.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Reconciliation or Adaptive Racism? Truth, Rage, and Embrace in “I’m Not Racist”Author: John B. Hatch, Eastern University

Chapter 2: Documenting a Horrific Memory
Author: Ariel E. Seay-Howard, North Carolina State University

Chapter 3: 21st Century Black Magic: An Analysis of Afrofuturism and Invention in A Black Lady Sketch Show as an Avenue Toward Black Liberation
Author: Natalie Weathers, Howard University

Chapter 4. Junction Historicizing of Conflict and Sporting Competition: Communicating Resolution and Reconciliation
Author: Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University

Chapter 5: Patterns of Discursive Amnesia and Intentional Erasures: Collective Memory and Political Mechanizations of Nationalism
Author 1: Victoria A. Newsom, Olympic College
Author 2: Lara Martin Lengel, Bowling Green State University

Chapter 6: “Franklin, My Dear”: Post-racial Counter Narratives and Civil War Public Memory
Author 1: Patricia Davis, Northeastern University
Author 2: Christina Moss, University of Memphis

Chapter 7: Hiding Behind Heritage in Post-Communist Albania
Author: Dana F. Phelps, Norfolk Academy

Chapter 8: Out of Place to In Place: Recognizing and Re/Membering the Hawaiian DiasporaAuthor: Rona Tamiko Halualani, San Jose State University

Chapter 9: Memories of Labor: The Anthracite Coal Miners’ Memorial Amid Landscapes of Deindustrialization
Author: Melissa R. Meade, Seton Hall University

Chapter 10: ¿Quiénes somos? The Representation of the Latino Identity in the “¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States” exhibit
Author 1: Lillian Agosto Maldonado, Howard University
Author 2: Natalie Febo, National Museum of American Latino

Product details

Published 15 Dec 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 312
ISBN 9781666964264
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 11 BW Illustrations
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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