Slavery and Its Memory in Public Monuments

Ater, Renée

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“…Who precisely will bear the burden of making those materialized symbols do that work?" A more fair and productive approach might be to replace them with works that memorialized the Black experience of slavery and American history (Ater, 2010), addressing historical memories that actually have been silenced in precisely the ways Trouillot (1995) argued, if not "erased" entirely (certainly much more so than in taking down a statue of Robert E. Lee). Moreover, the act of removal can be a powerful new statement of current social action that can itself be remembered and memorialized: as Classical art historian Mary Beard (2020) (though herself an opponent of "Rhodes must fall") points out, "iconoclasm can be performance art," an observation that is cleverly illustrated by Banksy's proposal that the Colston statue in Bristol be reinstalled with additional sculptural figures posed in the act of pulling it down (Figure 3), 7 itself reminiscent of Parcak's instructions for toppling an obelisk.…”

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Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage

Bauer

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Recent calls across the world for removing monuments to White supremacy have brought widespread attention to the power of images and the role of heritage in society. A more careful examination of heritage’s itineraries and pragmatics—its practical effects—is thus warranted. This paper interrogates the pragmatics of heritage in two ways. First, what are the discourses and rhetorics of heritage—how is heritage invoked and talked about, like a sign of history, in making statements about the world? Second, what does heritage do, as a sign in history, when it is invoked, encountered, and circulated? What does heritage activate, and what are the practical effects of its itineraries? Drawing on the examples of the return of the Euphronios krater to Italy and the removal of Confederate and racist monuments in the US and elsewhere, I argue that while operating in these two modes—as signs of and in history—heritage’s greatest potential for transformational change is when it ceases acting as a rhetorical device and instead becomes itself the center of experiential social action.

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Section: Conclusion: Heritage As Transformative Practicementioning

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Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage

Bauer

2020

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2010)

Thurston¹

2011

Slavery & Abolition

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For 2010 the bibliography continues its customary coverage of secondary writings published since 1900 in western European languages on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world: monographs, notes and articles in scholarly periodicals, substantial reviews and review essays, conference papers, and chapters in edited volumes and Festschriften focused primarily on slavery or slave trading. Scholarly materials in electronic media, as well as some audio and visual, are also mentioned. Readers unfamiliar with other technical aspects of the presentation may refer to the notes introducing previous supplements in this journal.The bibliography does not include materials on slavery found in writings focused on other subjects, e.g. Spanish administrative practice, the history of sugar, urban or agricultural history, race relations, or the Roman family. Specialists in every field will therefore not find recognized contributions to knowledge of the subject presented in the context of the broader scholarship in their areas -perhaps, and precisely for that reason often among the more significant works in their fields. It is on such specialists, and the references to such related studies that they provide in their own works, that the bibliography ultimately depends. We aim here to cover the literature at a level that gives readers full access to all scholarly literature on slavery within a single additional research step.We've made a minor change to the organization of the bibliography. For some time the "Modern" sub-heading, under the section "Other," has been used as a catch-all for a variety of different entries. To better organize these burgeoning fields of inquiry, we've created a new sub-heading, "Representations and Legacies," which includes entries concerning memory and commemoration, the artistic and literary representation of slavery in contemporary works, and the legacies of slavery, including

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Memorialization and Marginalization: Vernacular Sites and the American Civil War

Lyons¹

2011

Public Art Dialogue

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Slavery and Its Memory in Public Monuments

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Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage

Itineraries, iconoclasm, and the pragmatics of heritage

Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2010)

Memorialization and Marginalization: Vernacular Sites and the American Civil War

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