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Jun 26, 2020 · My Body Is a Confederate Monument. The black people I come from were owned and raped by the white people I come from. Who dares to tell me to celebrate them? P.S. Spencer. 1278. By Caroline...
‘My Body Is a Confederate Monument’: Slavery, Rape and Reframing the Past. Caroline Randall Williams discusses her essay that puts Black Southerners like her squarely at the heart of...
If there are those who want to remember the legacy of the Confederacy, if they want monuments, well, then, my body is a monument. My skin is a monument. Dead Confederates are honored all over this country — with cartoonish private statues, solemn public monuments and even in the names of United States Army bases.
As a Black southern woman with white ancestors, her view of the debate over how America remembers its past is deeply personal. This episode is the latest in our podcast series on race where we ...
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Jul 30, 2020 · New on our podcast: the call to remove Confederate monuments is growing. What is our responsibility in examining history? We talk with Caroline Randall Williams, author of the New York Times essay "My Body is a Confederate Monument."
Jul 2, 2020 · In Louisville, Kentucky, a monument depicting a Confederate officer was removed from the city square. And on Tuesday, Mississippi decided to remove the Confederate symbol from the state's...
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This article, written by journalist and poet Caroline Randall Williams, addresses the sentiment of those who want to remember the legacy of the Confederacy and who oppose the removal of Confederate monuments across the country within the context of plantation rape.
