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The Shadow of Selma evaluates the 1965 civil rights campaign in
Selma, Alabama, the historical memory of the campaign's marches,
and the continuing relevance of and challenges to the Voting Rights
Act. The contributors present Selma not just as a keystone event
but, much like Ferguson today, as a transformative place: a
supposedly unimportant location that became the focal point of
epochal historical events. By shifting the focus from leaders like
Martin Luther King Jr. to the thousands of unheralded people who
crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge-and the networks that undergirded
and opposed them-this innovative volume considers the campaign's
long-term impact and its place in history. The volume recalls the
historical currents that surrounded Selma, discussing grassroots
activism, the role of President Lyndon B. Johnson during the
struggle for the Voting Rights Act, and the political reaction to
Selma at home and abroad. Using Ava DuVernay's 2014 Hollywood film
as a stepping stone, the editors bring together various essays that
address the ways media-from television and newspaper coverage to
"race beat" journalism-represented and reconfigured Selma. The
contributors underline the power of misrepresentation in shaping
popular memory and in fueling a redemptive narrative that glosses
over ongoing racial problems. Finally, the volume traces the
fifty-year legacy of the Voting Rights Act. It reveals the many
subtle and overt methods by which opponents of racial equality
attempted to undo the act's provisions, with a particular focus on
the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision that eliminated sections
of the act designed to prevent discrimination. Taken together, the
essays urge readers not to be blind to forms of discrimination and
injustice that continue to shape inequalities in the United States.
They remind us that while today's obstacles to racial equality may
look different from a literacy test or a grimfaced Alabama state
trooper, they are no less real. Contributors: Alma Jean Billingslea
Brown | Ben Houston | Peter Ling | Mark McLay | Tony Badger | Clive
Webb | Aniko Bodroghkozy | Mark Walmsley | George Lewis | Megan
Hunt | Devin Fergus | Barbara Harris Combs | Lynn Mie Itagaki
Beginning in the era of Manifest Destiny, U.S. settlers, writers,
politicians, and boosters worked to bind California and Hawai‘i
together in the American imagination, emphasizing white settlement
and capitalist enterprise. In California and Hawai‘i Bound Henry
Knight Lozano explores how these settlers and boosters promoted and
imagined California and Hawai‘i as connected places and sites for
U.S. settler colonialism, and how this relationship reveals the
fraught constructions of an Americanized Pacific West from the
1840s to the 1950s. The growing ties of promotion and development
between the two places also fostered the promotion of “perils”
over this transpacific relationship, from Native Hawaiians who
opposed U.S. settler colonialism to many West Coast Americans who
articulated social and racial dangers from closer bonds with
Hawai‘i, illustrating how U.S. promotional expansionism in the
Pacific existed alongside defensive peril in the complicated
visions of Americanization that linked California and Hawai‘i.
California and Hawai‘i Bound demonstrates how the settler
colonial discourses of Americanization that connected California
and Hawai‘i evolved and refracted alongside socioeconomic
developments and native resistance, during a time when U.S.
territorial expansion, transoceanic settlement and tourism, and
capitalist investment reconstructed both the American West and the
eastern Pacific.
The Shadow of Selma provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1965
civil rights campaign, the historical memory of the marches, and
the continuing relevance of and challenges to the Voting Rights
Act. The essays consider Selma not just as a keystone event but,
much like Ferguson today, a transformative place: a supposedly
unimportant location that became the focal point of epochal
historical events. Contributors to this innovative volume examine
the relationship between the memorable figures of the
campaign?Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, among others?and
the thousands of other unheralded people who also crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge on their way from Selma to Montgomery. They
analyze networks that undergirded as well as opposed the movement,
placing it in broader historical, political, and international
contexts. Addressing the influential role of media representations
from contemporary newspaper and television coverage to the 2014
Hollywood film by Ava DuVernay, several of the essays challenge the
redemptive narrative that has shaped popular memory, one that
glosses over ongoing racial problems. Finally, the volume explores
the fifty-year legacy of the Voting Rights Act, with particular
focus on Shelby County vs. Holder, which in 2013 seemed to suggest
that the Act had solved the disfranchisement problems of the civil
rights era and was outdated. Taken together, the essays argue that
while today the obstacles to racial equality may look different
than a literacy test or a grim-faced Alabama State Trooper, they
are no less real.
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