Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights

Hoerl, Kristen

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“…White innocence myths are a dominant trope within the United States (McPhail, 2002), articulated in a variety of media forms, from films to music to political discourse (Hoerl, 2009;Hughey, 2014;Lacy, 2010;Madison, 1999). Within this genre, there is a specific history attached to white women leveraging their status as victimized (either as individuals or as a collective) to assert power.…”

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Burning Karen’s Headquarters: Gender, Race, & the United Daughters of the Confederacy Headquarters

Maurantonio

2021

Memory Studies

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In the early morning hours of 31 May 2020 in Richmond, Virginia, along with graffiti to the monuments lining the city’s historic Monument Avenue, the nearby headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was covered in colorful graffiti and set aflame. This article explores the gendered and raced critiques of the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s memory work communicated by this protest action, using the “Karen meme” as its point of departure. Invocations of “Karen” on Twitter in response to the Richmond protest made pointed arguments about narrative, place, and aesthetics, critiquing not only the Daughters’ role in remembering the Confederacy but the “Southern lady” trope within American public memory. Rather than an oblique reference, the Karen meme, this article argues, underscored Twitter’s potential as a site of anti-racist resistance during times of crisis.

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Section: The Narrative "Karen"mentioning

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Burning Karen’s Headquarters: Gender, Race, & the United Daughters of the Confederacy Headquarters

Maurantonio

2021

Memory Studies

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“…Though Sparta was in some ways meritocratic for its time, it also employed a rigid hierarchal societal structure with a king, powerful agro-plutocrats, politicians, and Inferiors (Cartledge & Spawforth, 1989). Given this historical erasure, it is important to remember that revised history serves contemporary purposes (Hoerl, 2009) with a call to an idealized and selectively remembered past (Gabriel, 1998).…”

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The Orientalized “Other” and Corrosive Femininity: Threats to White Masculinity in 300

Kutufam

2014

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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The film 300 tells a fictionalized account of 300 Spartans’ courageous stand against Xerxes’s Persian army that provided Greece a beacon of masculine strength, independence, and freedom. This study seeks to understand the racist and sexist ideologies represented in the film’s characterization of the Spartan and the Persian armies. To uncover ideologies in the film, we conducted a textual analysis focusing on the intersecting constructions of nation, race, and gender. Our findings suggest that the film advances ideological support for the duty of Whiteness and masculinity in the United States, specifically, and the West, generally, to protect itself from the external, invading forces of the Orientalized racial “other” and against the internal, corrosive forces of femininity.

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“…Postula, en el caso de los productos televisivos, su carácter como articulaciones dotadas de sentido cuya finalidad es dar forma a determinadas representaciones estructuradas mediante el ejercicio discursivo (Castelló 2008: 207-211). este enfoque ha sido utilizado, por ejemplo, en trabajos interesados por la vinculación entre estrategias de evocación de la identidad racial y prácticas de memoria mediática audiovisual (Hoerl 2009). …”

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Memoria televisiva y representación de la identidad. La ‘españolización del Holocausto’

Laffond

2013

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

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 resumen la representación televisiva de la historia suele expresar la idea de raíz colectiva nacional, pero ello puede complementarse con referencias de carácter internacionales o cosmopolitas que recreen distintas escalas de identidad. este trabajo estudia, en concreto, dos producciones televisivas españolas: el documental El convoy de los 927 (2004) y el telefilm El ángel de Budapest (2011). ambos relatos evocan un entorno aparentemente extraño para la historia nacional: el Holocausto. el análisis aborda la tipificación de las adscripciones territoriales, los etiquetajes políticos y los ejes de conflicto o consenso, para evaluar las formas y relaciones adoptadas por la representación de formas de identidad y alteridad históricas. los resultados proponen la noción de 'españolización del Holocausto', entendido como marco sincrético y asimétrico donde se armonizan dimensiones didácticas y morales propias del Holocausto en coordenadas de memoria y reconocimiento español. AbstractThe representation of history on television can express the idea of an inclusive and collective root of national character. However, this idea can broadened by references of an international or cosmopolitan character, resulting in narratives that integrate different scales of identity. The object of this investigation is to study two Spanish television productions: the documentary El convoy de los 927 (2004) and the TV movie El Ángel de Budapest (2011). Both evoke a setting apparently at odds with Spain's national history: the Holocaust. The discussion tackles the categorization of territorial assignments, political classification, and the axes of conflict and consensus to evaluate the forms and relationships adopted for the representation of historical forms of identity and otherness. The results propose the notion of the Hispanicization of the Holocaust, understood as a syncretic and asymmetrical framework that alludes to the incorporation of ethics or pedagogical dimensions of the Holocaust in axes of Spanish memory and recognition.

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Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights

Cited by 12 publications

References 31 publications

Burning Karen’s Headquarters: Gender, Race, & the United Daughters of the Confederacy Headquarters

Burning Karen’s Headquarters: Gender, Race, & the United Daughters of the Confederacy Headquarters

The Orientalized “Other” and Corrosive Femininity: Threats to White Masculinity in 300

Memoria televisiva y representación de la identidad. La ‘españolización del Holocausto’

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