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Laying Claim - African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity (Paperback)
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Laying Claim - African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity (Paperback)
Series: Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series
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In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern
Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central
narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have
been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African
American points of view, the resulting southern identity was
monolithically white. Davis traces how the increasing participation
of black public voices in the realms of Civil War
memory-battlefields, museums, online communities-has dispelled the
mirage of 'southernness' as a stolid cairn of white culture and has
begun to create a more fluid sense of southernness that welcomes
contributions by all of the region's peoples. Laying Claim offers
insightful and penetrating examinations of African American
participation in Civil War reenactments; the role of black history
museums in enriching representations of the Civil War era with more
varied interpretations; and the internet as a forum within which
participants exchange and create historical narratives that offer
alternatives to unquestioned and dominant public memories. From
this evolving cultural landscape, Davis demonstrates how simplistic
caricatures of African American experiences are giving way to more
authentic, expansive, and inclusive interpretations of
southernness. As a case-study and example of change, Davis cites
the evolution of depictions of life at Thomas Jefferson's
Monticello. Where visitors to the site once encountered narratives
that repeated the stylized myth of Monticello as a genteel idyll,
modern accounts of Jefferson's day offer a holistic, inclusive, and
increasingly honest view of Monticello as the residents on every
rung of the social ladder experienced it. Contemporary violence and
attacks about or inspired by the causes, outcomes, and symbols of
the Civil War, even one hundred and fifty years after its end, add
urgency to Davis's argument that the control and creation of public
memories of that war is an issue of concern not only to scholars
but all Americans. Her hopeful examination of African American
participation in public memory illuminates paths by which this
enduring ideological impasse may find resolutions.
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