Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the power to determine what we remember of the past, and whether that remembrance will honor all Southerners or only select groups.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
*1. A Duty Peculiarly Fitting to Women
*2. Celebrating Black Memory in the Postbellum South
*3. Archiving White Memory
*4. Black Remembrance in the Age of Jim Crow
*5. Exhibiting Southernness in a New Century
*6. Black Memorials and the Bulldozer Revolution
*7. Contested History in the Sunbelt South
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Index
