Historians debate America's history of racism and Confederate ...

Push To Remove Confederate Monuments Opens Debate On Other ...

He screened the racist film "Birth Of A Nation" at the White House. He called Blacks an ignorant and inferior race. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

Opinion | Confederate Statues and 'Our' History - The New York Times

The statues were part of the legitimation of this racist regime and of an exclusionary definition of America. The historian Carl Becker ...

What the Confederate flag really means to America today, according ...

What the Confederate flag really means to America today, according to a race historian ... history of racism in this country. The Southern ...

US Confederate monuments: What is the debate about? - Al Jazeera

... racism, segregation and slavery. The struggle over the country's memory of the Confederacy and slavery has seen these historical sites ...

SAH Statement on The Removal of Monuments to the Confederacy ...

Their presence is a reminder of a racist societal structure that led to a nation divided against itself, followed by an era of Reconstruction ...

The battle over Confederate statues, explained - Vox

Underlying the battle over Confederate statues is really a bigger debate about race in America. Over the past few years, we have seen a greater ...

Debate: Should We Tear Down Historical Monuments?

The Confederacy was unapologetically founded to maintain enslavement, using racist philosophy that even our founders at their most flawed did ...

Racism and Confederate Monument Construction: Temporal ...

I focus on three broad sets of explanatory variables: those related to structural racism, group threat/countermovements, and “race-neutral” ...

Opinion: Don't Take Down Confederate Monuments. Here's Why.

Stonewall Jackson monument VMI or downtown. They didn't like having black classmates because they had racist hearts. They honored racial ...

Confederate Statues and the Legacy of Slavery and Racism in the ...

Confederate Statues and the Legacy of Slavery and Racism in the U.S. ... historical legacy of racism. At the same time, it also represents ...

Erasing History or Making History? Race, Racism, and the American ...

Erasing History or Making History? Race, Racism, and the American Memorial Landscape ; Teaching the History of Racist Violence in the High School ...

In Confederate statue debates, common values can bring ...

... historical figures with complex, and often racist, histories. As a ... These statues represent people who played parts in American history.

More than Rocks and Stone: Confederate Monuments, Memory ...

To the extent to which Confederate monuments reinforce the (racist) historical ... David W. 2001 . Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American ...

Opinion | You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a ...

... confederate-monuments-racism.html. Share full article. 1.3k. Credit ... I say it is not a matter of “airbrushing” history, but of adding a new ...

New UVA Study Finds Correlation Between Lynchings and ...

Some scholars have already performed research that supports the link between Confederate memorials and racism. In their paper, Henderson and ...

MEANINGS AND IMPACTS OF CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS IN ...

Given the racial history of Confederate symbols, it is unsurprising that Americans' attitudes about them are closely connected to race and ...

The Costs of the Confederacy - Smithsonian Magazine

... debate raging in America over public monuments to the Confederate past. ... Confederate memorials, and it has a history of racist propagandizing. One of ...

The escalating fight over racist monuments in Southern communities

... history of Confederate and other racist symbols and remove them from public spaces. ... Americans. "The supremacy of the white race of the ...

Living Among Confederate Icons: Perpetuating White Supremacist ...

Historians debate American's history of racism and Confederate monuments. ABCNews.com. https://abcnews.go.com/US/historians-debate-americas ...

Why I Changed My Mind About Confederate Monuments - The Atlantic

Monument sites became classrooms where I could teach about the long and difficult history of racism in America. Taking them down seemed to ...