In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History

In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History

by Mitch Landrieu
In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History

In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History

by Mitch Landrieu

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Overview

The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate.

"There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. In his first book, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader history of slavery, race and institutional inequities that still bedevil America, and traces his personal relationship to this history. His father, as state legislator and mayor, was a huge force in the integration of New Orleans in the 1960s and 19070s. Landrieu grew up with a progressive education in one of the nation's most racially divided cities, but even he had to relearn Southern history as it really happened.

Equal parts unblinking memoir, history, and prescription for finally confronting America's most painful legacy, In the Shadow of Statues contributes strongly to the national conversation about race in the age of Donald Trump, at a time when racism is resurgent with seemingly tacit approval from the highest levels of government and when too many Americans have a misplaced nostalgia for a time and place that never existed.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780525559467
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/19/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 661,024
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Mitch Landrieu is the mayor of New Orleans. He was elected in 2010 and is now completing his second four-year term. A Democrat, Landrieu served as lieutenant governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010. He is also president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. His father, Moon Landrieu, was mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978 and a leading civil rights pioneer.

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Table of Contents

Prologue: Can Someone Get Me a Crane? 1

Chapter 1 Broadmoor 7

Chapter 2 Learning to See What's in Front of Me 35

Chapter 3 David Duke and Donald Trump, a Nightmare Loop 57

Chapter 4 Politics in Disaster Time 91

Chapter 5 Rebuilding and Mourning in NOLA 125

Chapter 6 The Shadow of Robert E. Lee 161

Epilogue 201

Acknowledgments 209

Further Reading 215

Truth: Remarks on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans 217

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