Grappling with Monuments of Oppression: Moving from Analysis to Activism [Paperback]

List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Introduction: Remaking Monuments and Memories; 2.? Addressing Community Trauma through the Framework of Controversial Monuments and Monuments of Oppression; 3.? Un-ringing the Bell: How to Silence Oppressive Monuments; 4.? Landscapes of Slavery and Colonialism: Creating, Embracing, and Erasing the Past in The Gambia and Senegal; 5.? Cherbourg Beyond the Seas: An Invisible Monument and the Colonial Past in a Former French Imperial Port City; 6.? Place of Punishment or Monument? Colonial Pillories and the Memory of Slavery in Brazil; 7.? Shipwrecks, the Middle Passage and Jim Crow: The Signatures of Systemic Racism and Injustice at Two Maritime Archaeological Sites; 8.?Confronting the Lost Cause Memorialization in South Carolina; 9.? Notice is Hereby Given: The Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland; 10.? A Re-Vision of Confederate Monuments: The Art and Activism of John Sims; 11.?Commemorating an American Genocide: Catherines Town and the 1779 Sullivan Expedition against the Haudenosaunee; 12.? Decolonizing Monument Making in Newark, New Jersey: The Harriet Tubman Memorial; Index.

Grappling with Monuments of Oppression provides a timely analysis of the diverse approaches being used around the world to confront colonial and imperial monuments and to promote social equity.

Christopher C. Fennell is Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, and an annual Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago, USA.

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