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- The civil rights movement circulates through American memory in forms and through channels that are at once powerful, dangerous, and hotly contested. Civil rights memorials jostle with the South's ubiquitous monuments to its Confederate past.
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The case-study chapters each ad-dress in some way how the “consensus memory” has been forged or challenged. In the first two sections, the essays address Civil Rights Movement memory as in-stantiated in memory sites and film and media portrayals.
May 1, 2006 · The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory. Paperback – Illustrated, May 1, 2006. The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over the movement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past two decades.
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Apr 7, 2006 · "The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory offers a timely, thoughtful, and pathbreaking survey of Americans' struggle to make sense of the most important upheaval in recent American history. The authors ask vital questions about who remembers the civil rights struggle and how they do so.
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May 1, 2006 · How the civil rights movement is currently being remembered in American politics and culture—and why it matters—is the common theme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection.
Jun 1, 2007 · The thirteen essays assembled in Renee C. Romano and Leigh Raiford's collection, The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory, convincingly demonstrate that many contemporary conflicts in the black freedom struggle “revolve around how the civil rights movement should be remembered” (p. xii).
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How the civil rights movement is currently being remembered in American politics and culture - and why it matters - is the common theme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection.
May 31, 2013 · The Civil Rights movement in American memory. by. Romano, Renee Christine; Raiford, Leigh. Publication date. 2006. Topics. African Americans in popular culture, African Americans, Civil rights movements, Racism in popular culture, Popular culture. Publisher. Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press.
