Women and the Lost Cause: preserving a Confederate identity in the American Deep South

Gulley, Harold E.

doi:10.1006/jhge.1993.1009

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“…Granted, the presence of a street dedicated to Jefferson Davis is not particularly surprising in a southern city. Between 1880 and 1920 Confederate partisans recast the South's memorial landscape in their image (Gulley 1993;Radford 1992;Winberry 1983). The statuary and plaques that dominate the nearby capitol's grounds attest to their industrious efforts to ensure white supremacy's past and future.…”

Section: Intersectionsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Memorial landscapes: analytic questions and metaphors

2008

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Over the past two decades, geographers have probed the intersection of collective memory and urban space. Their sustained interest in the subject reflects an understanding of the social condition of commemoration and the important role that space plays in the process and politics of collective memory. Along with other critical social scientists, geographers envision these public symbols as part of larger cultural landscapes that reflect and legitimate the normative social order. A review of the extant literature indicates that geographers scrutinize memorial landscapes through three conceptual lenses that may be understood via the metaphors of 'text,' 'arena,' and 'performance.' These metaphors are in turn mobilized through a series of analytic questions that serve to identify the interests served and denied by landscape 'texts,' the 'arenas' in which they are produced, and the ways in which they are enacted via 'performance.' This article's synopsis of the subfield's predominant metaphors and its attendant questions contributes to the ongoing cultural geographic project of articulating and implementing methods for interpreting landscapes as open-ended symbolic systems.

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2008

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“…Such imaginative geographies have, according to Winders (2005), "played key roles in the overall production of the South as an imperial holding" (396; see also Taylor and King 1996;Meinig 1998, 189;Greeson 1999). White southerners have contested the history and memory underpinning northern normative claims (Foster 1987;Gulley 1993;Gallagher and Nolan 2000), and African Americans have sought to remember decidedly differently (Hoelscher 2003;Dwyer 2004). As elsewhere (Pred 2000;Gilroy 2002;G.…”

Section: Race and Spacementioning

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Geography Written in Lightning: Race, Sexuality, and Regulatory Aesthetics inThe Birth of a Nation

Olund

2013

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Memorial associations, led by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, created the South's own Memorial Day and built the monuments that today can be found at the center of southern towns and cities. This founding phase of southern memory made strategic use of both ritualized performance and memorial landscapes to solidify an awareness of the Confederate past (e.g., Wilson 1980;Winberry 1983;Foster 1987;Gulley 1993;Kubassek 1992;Savage 1997;Sims 1997;Blight 2001).…”

Section: Memory's Twilight Zone: Natchez and The ''Old South''mentioning

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Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South

Hoelscher

2003

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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This article examines the process of racialization as an essential aspect of how everyday geographies are made, understood, and challenged. It begins from the premise that a primary root of modern American race relations can be found in the southern past, especially in how that past was imagined, articulated, and performed during a crucial period: the post-Reconstruction era known as ''Jim Crow.'' More than just a reaction to a turbulent world where Civil War defeat destabilized categories of power and authority, white cultural memory there became an active ingredient in defining life in the New South. The culture of segregation that mobilized such memories, and the forgetting that inevitably accompanied them, relied on performance, ritualized choreographies of race and place, and gender and class, in which participants knew their roles and acted them out for each other and for visitors. Among the displays of white southern memory most active during Jim Crow, the Natchez Pilgrimage stands out. Elite white women served as the principal actors in making an imaginative geography that became a bedrock of cultural hegemony based on white supremacy. In order to reconstruct the performances of whiteness in Natchez, Mississippi, and to disentangle the constitutive relationship between race and place, this article makes use of qualitative methods that rely on previously unused archival materials and on ethnographic fieldnotes.

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Women and the Lost Cause: preserving a Confederate identity in the American Deep South

Cited by 39 publications

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Memorial landscapes: analytic questions and metaphors

Memorial landscapes: analytic questions and metaphors

Geography Written in Lightning: Race, Sexuality, and Regulatory Aesthetics inThe Birth of a Nation

Making Place, Making Race: Performances of Whiteness in the Jim Crow South

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