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This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of
the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as
agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York
City's securitized remembrances at the National September 11
Memorial and Museum; Charlottesville's Confederate monument
controversies in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally; and
Montgomery's "double consciousness" at the National Memorial for
Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum. By tracing the genealogies
that can be found across three contested cityscapes-New York,
Charlottesville, and Montgomery-this book opens up new vistas for
research for communication studies as it shows how cities are
agentic actors that can wage "war" on urban landscapes as massive
actor-networks struggling to remember (and forget). With the rise
of sanctuary cities against nativistic immigration policies,
"invasions" from white supremacists and neo-Nazis objecting to "the
great replacement," and rhizomic uprisings of Black Lives Matter
protests in response to lethal police force against persons of
color, this timely book speaks to the emergent realities of how
cities have become battlegrounds in America's continuing cultural
wars.
This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of
the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as
agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York
City's securitized remembrances at the National September 11
Memorial and Museum; Charlottesville's Confederate monument
controversies in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally; and
Montgomery's "double consciousness" at the National Memorial for
Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum. By tracing the genealogies
that can be found across three contested cityscapes-New York,
Charlottesville, and Montgomery-this book opens up new vistas for
research for communication studies as it shows how cities are
agentic actors that can wage "war" on urban landscapes as massive
actor-networks struggling to remember (and forget). With the rise
of sanctuary cities against nativistic immigration policies,
"invasions" from white supremacists and neo-Nazis objecting to "the
great replacement," and rhizomic uprisings of Black Lives Matter
protests in response to lethal police force against persons of
color, this timely book speaks to the emergent realities of how
cities have become battlegrounds in America's continuing cultural
wars.
The Securitization of Memorial Space argues that the National
September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum is a securitized site of
memory—what Foucault called a dispositif—that polices visitors
and publics to remember trauma, darkness, and victimage in ways
that perpetuate the “necessity” of the Global War on Terrorism.
Contributing to studies in public memory, rhetoric and
argumentation, and critical security studies, Nicholas S. Paliewicz
and Marouf Hasian Jr. show how various human and nonhuman actors
participated in complicated argumentative formations that have
mobilized political, performative, and militaristic practices of
anti-terroristic violence in other parts of the world. While there
were times that certain argumentative stakeholders—such as local
New Yorkers—questioned the necessity of securitizing this site of
memory, agentic factions including the families of those who died
on 9/11, public supporters, security agents, and politicians
created an ideologically oriented security assemblage that
remembers 9/11 through counter-terroristic performances at Ground
Zero. In chronological order from the 2001 “dustbowl” to the
present popularization of 9/11 memories, the authors present seven
chapters of rich rhetorical analysis that show how the National
September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum perpetuates grief,
uncertainty, and angst that affects public memory in
multidirectional ways.
In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the
nation's first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of
Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators,
representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal
hate crime. While lynching histories and memories have received
attention among communication scholars and some interdisciplinary
studies of traditional civil rights memorials exist, contemporary
studies often fail to examine the politicized nature of the spaces.
This volume represents the first investigation of the National
Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, both of which
strategically make clear the various links between America's
history of racial terror and contemporary mass incarceration
conditions, the mistreatment of juveniles, and capital punishment.
Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching focuses on
several key social agents and organizations that played vital roles
in the public and legal consciousness raising that finally led to
the passage of the act. Marouf A. Hasian Jr. and Nicholas S.
Paliewicz argue that the advocacy of attorney Bryan Stevenson, the
work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and the efforts of
curators at Montgomery's new Legacy Museum all contributed to the
formation of a rhetorical culture that set the stage at last for
this hallmark lynching legislation. The authors examine how the EJI
uses spaces of remembrance to confront audiences with
race-conscious messages and measure to what extent those messages
are successful.
In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the
nation's first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of
Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators,
representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal
hate crime. While lynching histories and memories have received
attention among communication scholars and some interdisciplinary
studies of traditional civil rights memorials exist, contemporary
studies often fail to examine the politicized nature of the spaces.
This volume represents the first investigation of the National
Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, both of which
strategically make clear the various links between America's
history of racial terror and contemporary mass incarceration
conditions, the mistreatment of juveniles, and capital punishment.
Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching focuses on
several key social agents and organizations that played vital roles
in the public and legal consciousness raising that finally led to
the passage of the act. Marouf A. Hasian Jr. and Nicholas S.
Paliewicz argue that the advocacy of attorney Bryan Stevenson, the
work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and the efforts of
curators at Montgomery's new Legacy Museum all contributed to the
formation of a rhetorical culture that set the stage at last for
this hallmark lynching legislation. The authors examine how the EJI
uses spaces of remembrance to confront audiences with
race-conscious messages and measure to what extent those messages
are successful.
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