{"product_id":"what-can-and-cant-be-said-race-uplift-and-monument-building-in-the-contemporary-south-9780300211757","title":"What Can and Can't Be Said: Race  Uplift  and Monument Building in the Contemporary South","description":"\u003cp\u003eA noted authority on architectural history and American cities . . . engages with the ongoing debate over interpretations of race in public art.Glenn T. Eskew  American Historical Review  Thorough  insightful  and of great use in comprehending the vital role that monumental art can and does play in American culture.Choice  An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and Black history that have been erected in the American South over the past three decades  this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of African Americans in contemporary Southern society while showing how the construction of such monuments frequently exposes the myth that racial differences have been overcome.  Examining monuments whose creation has been particularly contentious  from the Martin Luther King  Jr.  National Memorial in Washington  D.C.  to more obscure memorials such as the so-called \"multicultural monument\" in Bowling Green  Virginia  Dell Upton shows that monument builders must contend not only with varied interpretations of the African-American past but also with the continuing presence of White supremacynot only in its traditional forms but also in the subtler  more recent assumptions that Whites are neutral arbiters of what is fair and accurate in such monuments.  Upton argues that Southerners  White and Black  share a convenient fictiona dual heritage that allows them to acknowledge the Black past without relinquishing cherished White historical mythologies. In his conclusion  Upton considers how these two pasts might be reimagined and memorialized as a single Southern American history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666288271413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300211759","price":51.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300211757.jpg?v=1782427089","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-can-and-cant-be-said-race-uplift-and-monument-building-in-the-contemporary-south-9780300211757","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}