Author : Matthew Mace Barbee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781109983418
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)
Book Synopsis Memory, Race, and Communal Belonging in Narrative and Art: Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, 1948--1996 by : Matthew Mace Barbee
Download or read book Memory, Race, and Communal Belonging in Narrative and Art: Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, 1948--1996 written by Matthew Mace Barbee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After tracing the history of Monument Avenue from 1890 through 1948---especially in relation to racial segregation and public memory in Virginia---this study provides a detailed analysis of the ways the Civil Rights Movement and anti-integration movements in Richmond used Monument Avenue as a symbol of the larger struggle in which they were engaged. In the post-Civil Rights era, under ideologies of neoliberalism and multiculturalism, the existing Confederate memorials were joined, in 1996, by a new statue of African American tennis champion, writer, and activist Arthur Ashe. This memorial was unveiled only after two years of intense public debate.