Revisionism and collective memory: The struggle for meaning in theAmistadaffair

Anti-racist White Hero, the Sequel: Intersections of Race(ism), Gender, and Social Justice

“…Yet history tells a different story than the entertainment media (Hasian & Carlson, 2000). Madison (1999) explained that an analysis of ARWH films must attend to what is silenced, which includes black heroism, agency, and the "undeniable work and leadership of African-American activists in both the planning of the Freedom Summer strategy and the investigation of the murders [of three civil rights workers]" (p. 410).…”

Remembering Japanese Militarism Through the Fusosha Textbook: The Collective Memory of the Asian-Pacific War in Japan

“…The notion of collective memory has been adopted by a number of researchers in communication (e.g., Hasian, 2004;Hasian & Carlson, 2000;Hubbard & Hasian, 1998) and other fields (e.g., Fujitani, White, & Yoneyama, 2001). Hasian and Frank (1999) define collective memories as ''the public acceptances or ratifications of .…”

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

“…A variety of memory sites, including commemorative structures (Blair, Jeppeson, and Pucci, 1991;Blair and Michel, 2000;Bodnar, 1992;Ehrenhaus, 1989;Mandzuik, 2003), speeches (Browne 1993(Browne , 1999, museums (Gallagher, 1999), photographs (Zelizer, 1998), and films (Biesecker, 2002;Ehrenhaus, 2001;Hasian 2001;Hasian and Carlson, 2000;Owens, 2003) constitute rhetorical expressions of cultural knowledge and values about past events. Indeed, widely shared depictions of the past may tell us more about contemporary issues than they do about past events.…”

“…Rhetorical scholars frequently refer to memory sites in terms of "public" (Browne, 1993(Browne, , 1995Eberly, 2004;Gallagher, 1999;Mandzuik, 2003) or "collective" memories (Hasian & Carlson, 2000;Hasian, 2001 (Hoerl, 2007).…”

“…Hasian and Carlson (2000) argue that the movie Amistad privileged mainstream understandings of the Amistad case to the exclusion of perspectives from marginalized groups. Media scholars have similarly noted Mississippi Burning's implicit support for white hegemony.…”