No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

by Karen L. Cox
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

by Karen L. Cox

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Overview

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today.
  
In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781469662688
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 02/23/2021
Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 585,212
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.

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The title of Karen L. Cox's book makes her point: there has never been common ground on the meaning of southern Confederate monuments. Her passionate, thorough history shows them not merely as expressions of historical memory, but fundamentally as embodiments of voting rights and voter suppression. A most illuminating book on an issue whose time never disappeared."—Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People and Southern History across the Color Line

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