Donald W. Shriver, Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195151534
- eISBN:
- 9780199785056
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195151534.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Americans live in a culture resistant to much talk about the evils in their past; they prefer to think about the future. But like the descendants of victims of evil in Germany and South Africa, some ...
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Americans live in a culture resistant to much talk about the evils in their past; they prefer to think about the future. But like the descendants of victims of evil in Germany and South Africa, some living Americans are not about to forget the evil past. Prominent among them are African Americans. This chapter explores the stubborn persistence of racism in America, the work of a growing number of citizens to remember the pains of racism past and present, and to express that memory in public ways. Local illustrations of public repentance include Richmond, Virginia; Rosewood, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Salem, Oregon; and Selma, Alabama. After a “tour” of high school history books of 1960-2000, the chapter ends with some summary answers to the question, “Can the past be repaired?” as well as arguments for and against reparations for slavery.Less
Americans live in a culture resistant to much talk about the evils in their past; they prefer to think about the future. But like the descendants of victims of evil in Germany and South Africa, some living Americans are not about to forget the evil past. Prominent among them are African Americans. This chapter explores the stubborn persistence of racism in America, the work of a growing number of citizens to remember the pains of racism past and present, and to express that memory in public ways. Local illustrations of public repentance include Richmond, Virginia; Rosewood, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Salem, Oregon; and Selma, Alabama. After a “tour” of high school history books of 1960-2000, the chapter ends with some summary answers to the question, “Can the past be repaired?” as well as arguments for and against reparations for slavery.
Juliet Hooker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195335361
- eISBN:
- 9780199868995
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335361.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter argues that taking racialized solidarity into account in theories of multiculturalism requires that existing normative justifications of minority group rights be reframed in order to ...
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This chapter argues that taking racialized solidarity into account in theories of multiculturalism requires that existing normative justifications of minority group rights be reframed in order to make whiteness visible. This entails focusing arguments for such rights on the need to reverse past and continuing disadvantages suffered by subordinated groups as a result of either cultural difference and/or racial hierarchy, thereby reintegrating the two branches of the multiculturalism literature. This would bring questions of collective injustice to the forefront of debates about minority group rights, which are one of the few instances where the content of the political community's public memory is challenged and the differences between the ethical-political perspectives of dominant and subordinated groups are confronted. Through such processes of contestation the ethical-political perspectives of dominant groups might be transformed, thereby leading to the development of greater political will to achieve racial justice.Less
This chapter argues that taking racialized solidarity into account in theories of multiculturalism requires that existing normative justifications of minority group rights be reframed in order to make whiteness visible. This entails focusing arguments for such rights on the need to reverse past and continuing disadvantages suffered by subordinated groups as a result of either cultural difference and/or racial hierarchy, thereby reintegrating the two branches of the multiculturalism literature. This would bring questions of collective injustice to the forefront of debates about minority group rights, which are one of the few instances where the content of the political community's public memory is challenged and the differences between the ethical-political perspectives of dominant and subordinated groups are confronted. Through such processes of contestation the ethical-political perspectives of dominant groups might be transformed, thereby leading to the development of greater political will to achieve racial justice.
Donald W. Shriver
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195151534
- eISBN:
- 9780199785056
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195151534.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The book records attempts in three countries — Germany, South Africa, and the United States — to educate patriots who are neither loveless critics nor uncritical lovers of their nation, but rather ...
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The book records attempts in three countries — Germany, South Africa, and the United States — to educate patriots who are neither loveless critics nor uncritical lovers of their nation, but rather loving critics. How does a national public learn to acknowledge the “dark side” of their country’s history? In the post-1945 years, Germans slowly but surely came to pay public attention to the evils of the Nazi era. In an astonishing accumulation of memorials, museums, films, anniversaries, and high school history books, the country has put its future generations on notice: “Never again”. Post-apartheid South Africa has seen comparable developments, especially in its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, new Constitution, memorials, and radically revised school text books. The United States, with a culture more focused on the future than the past, is undergoing a similar but slower public process. Two great crimes mark its national past: slavery and the fate of the people called Indians. The US is beginning to confront these collective crimes with new realism in new laws, museums, films, memorials, and history books. A political culture grows in its capacity for justice by remembering injustice. For a people not to remember the misdeeds of their past is to risk repeating them. Public memory requires concrete public signs, rituals, memorials, and education. This book seeks to record the attempts of these three countries to give public expression to justice by remembering injustice.Less
The book records attempts in three countries — Germany, South Africa, and the United States — to educate patriots who are neither loveless critics nor uncritical lovers of their nation, but rather loving critics. How does a national public learn to acknowledge the “dark side” of their country’s history? In the post-1945 years, Germans slowly but surely came to pay public attention to the evils of the Nazi era. In an astonishing accumulation of memorials, museums, films, anniversaries, and high school history books, the country has put its future generations on notice: “Never again”. Post-apartheid South Africa has seen comparable developments, especially in its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, new Constitution, memorials, and radically revised school text books. The United States, with a culture more focused on the future than the past, is undergoing a similar but slower public process. Two great crimes mark its national past: slavery and the fate of the people called Indians. The US is beginning to confront these collective crimes with new realism in new laws, museums, films, memorials, and history books. A political culture grows in its capacity for justice by remembering injustice. For a people not to remember the misdeeds of their past is to risk repeating them. Public memory requires concrete public signs, rituals, memorials, and education. This book seeks to record the attempts of these three countries to give public expression to justice by remembering injustice.
Brian C. Etheridge
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813166407
- eISBN:
- 9780813166636
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813166407.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
The introduction broaches the subject of the book, arguing that Germany's visibility in and significance for American life during the postwar period have been neither foreordained nor fixed. Since ...
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The introduction broaches the subject of the book, arguing that Germany's visibility in and significance for American life during the postwar period have been neither foreordained nor fixed. Since the end of World War II, various actors have tried to mobilize German representations for different ends. As a result, images of Germany have been manufactured, contested, and co-opted as rival narratives of Germany have competed for legitimacy and hegemony. This introduction describes how the book illustrates that these representations have been both produced by and subjected to different forms of diplomatic, political, social, and cultural power. The introduction highlights that this work connects international and domestic, diplomatic and cultural, and German and American histories. It narrates not only the activities of American and West German government officials but also the efforts of journalists, public intellectuals, filmmakers, public relations experts, neo-Nazis, Jews, conservatives, and student radicals in shaping and articulating narratives of Germany's past and present. This introduction details the concept of “memory diplomacy,” which draws from the study of both public memory and public diplomacy to integrate these different stories.Less
The introduction broaches the subject of the book, arguing that Germany's visibility in and significance for American life during the postwar period have been neither foreordained nor fixed. Since the end of World War II, various actors have tried to mobilize German representations for different ends. As a result, images of Germany have been manufactured, contested, and co-opted as rival narratives of Germany have competed for legitimacy and hegemony. This introduction describes how the book illustrates that these representations have been both produced by and subjected to different forms of diplomatic, political, social, and cultural power. The introduction highlights that this work connects international and domestic, diplomatic and cultural, and German and American histories. It narrates not only the activities of American and West German government officials but also the efforts of journalists, public intellectuals, filmmakers, public relations experts, neo-Nazis, Jews, conservatives, and student radicals in shaping and articulating narratives of Germany's past and present. This introduction details the concept of “memory diplomacy,” which draws from the study of both public memory and public diplomacy to integrate these different stories.
Douglas A. Boyd
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134086
- eISBN:
- 9780813135892
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134086.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
A small neighborhood in north Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw's” reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and ...
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A small neighborhood in north Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw's” reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for state funded urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with Frankfort's Capital Plaza in the mid 1960s. This book traces the evolution of the controversial, yet close-knit community that saw 400 families ultimately displaced by urban renewal policies. Using oral histories and first-hand memories, this book not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also exemplifies the ways in which this type of study enhances the historical record. A former Frankfort policeman described Craw's residents by saying, “They were a rough class of people, who didn't mind killing or being killed.” This book challenges history's judgmental stance by understanding how the former residents of Craw, sometimes unified by their memories and nostalgia, re-imagine and frame their community's history and how this process influences their sense of place.Less
A small neighborhood in north Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. “Craw's” reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for state funded urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with Frankfort's Capital Plaza in the mid 1960s. This book traces the evolution of the controversial, yet close-knit community that saw 400 families ultimately displaced by urban renewal policies. Using oral histories and first-hand memories, this book not only provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and its culture but also exemplifies the ways in which this type of study enhances the historical record. A former Frankfort policeman described Craw's residents by saying, “They were a rough class of people, who didn't mind killing or being killed.” This book challenges history's judgmental stance by understanding how the former residents of Craw, sometimes unified by their memories and nostalgia, re-imagine and frame their community's history and how this process influences their sense of place.
Juliet Hooker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195335361
- eISBN:
- 9780199868995
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335361.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
What is the effect of the institutional design of minority group rights on political solidarity? Can debates about such rights begin to address racialized solidarity? This chapter examines these ...
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What is the effect of the institutional design of minority group rights on political solidarity? Can debates about such rights begin to address racialized solidarity? This chapter examines these questions more concretely by analyzing the model of multiculturalism adopted in Nicaragua, where multiple indigenous and Afro-descendant groups requiring remedies for both racialized oppression and the accommodation of cultural difference are present (as in Latin America generally). The Nicaraguan case is analyzed in order to evaluate the kinds of minority group rights that might best enable the fair accommodation of ethnocultural diversity, remedy racialized oppression, and foster political solidarity. It suggests that debates about such rights can begin to address racialized solidarity by ushering in contestation about the content of public memory, but only if and when arguments for these rights reveal the existence of a state organized on the basis of cultural difference and racial hierarchy.Less
What is the effect of the institutional design of minority group rights on political solidarity? Can debates about such rights begin to address racialized solidarity? This chapter examines these questions more concretely by analyzing the model of multiculturalism adopted in Nicaragua, where multiple indigenous and Afro-descendant groups requiring remedies for both racialized oppression and the accommodation of cultural difference are present (as in Latin America generally). The Nicaraguan case is analyzed in order to evaluate the kinds of minority group rights that might best enable the fair accommodation of ethnocultural diversity, remedy racialized oppression, and foster political solidarity. It suggests that debates about such rights can begin to address racialized solidarity by ushering in contestation about the content of public memory, but only if and when arguments for these rights reveal the existence of a state organized on the basis of cultural difference and racial hierarchy.
Beate Dignas and R. R. R. Smith (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199572069
- eISBN:
- 9780191738739
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572069.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This book explores how memory intersects with and shapes religious traditions and cultural identities. It discusses how the memory layers that make up ancient history (social, religious, cultural) ...
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This book explores how memory intersects with and shapes religious traditions and cultural identities. It discusses how the memory layers that make up ancient history (social, religious, cultural) are represented and refracted in different contexts of the written and material remains of antiquity. Part I looks at religious pasts and the religious present in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian contexts, as well as the visual expression of specific identities, formed and forged over long periods of time. Part II is about defining religious identity and focuses on the apparently homogenous cultures that engage in a dialogue with their own past. Case studies show how selective commemoration and inventing the past shape particular religious identities. In Part III, which is about commemorating and erasing the past, contested versions of the past are interpreted in the context of particular cases in late antique Asia Minor. One looks at the Christian shaping of social memory in the lengthy epitaph of a bishop. Another looks at a carefully negotiated Christian erasure of selected parts of a community's religious memory represented in the 500-year-old images of its most prominent monument. Public memory in the ancient world was carefully managed.Less
This book explores how memory intersects with and shapes religious traditions and cultural identities. It discusses how the memory layers that make up ancient history (social, religious, cultural) are represented and refracted in different contexts of the written and material remains of antiquity. Part I looks at religious pasts and the religious present in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian contexts, as well as the visual expression of specific identities, formed and forged over long periods of time. Part II is about defining religious identity and focuses on the apparently homogenous cultures that engage in a dialogue with their own past. Case studies show how selective commemoration and inventing the past shape particular religious identities. In Part III, which is about commemorating and erasing the past, contested versions of the past are interpreted in the context of particular cases in late antique Asia Minor. One looks at the Christian shaping of social memory in the lengthy epitaph of a bishop. Another looks at a carefully negotiated Christian erasure of selected parts of a community's religious memory represented in the 500-year-old images of its most prominent monument. Public memory in the ancient world was carefully managed.
Douglas A. Boyd and W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134086
- eISBN:
- 9780813135892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134086.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The introduction presents the scenario of a neighborhood that was branded with the reputation as the “bad-part-of-town” and how an oral history project challenged outsider's perceptions of this ...
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The introduction presents the scenario of a neighborhood that was branded with the reputation as the “bad-part-of-town” and how an oral history project challenged outsider's perceptions of this neighborhood and its history by documenting the former resident's perspective and stories. It introduces the concept of “reclaiming” public memory from the entrenched reputation and re-examines the process of reconstructing community in memory when the community being remembered was destroyed by Urban Renewal in the mid-1960s.Less
The introduction presents the scenario of a neighborhood that was branded with the reputation as the “bad-part-of-town” and how an oral history project challenged outsider's perceptions of this neighborhood and its history by documenting the former resident's perspective and stories. It introduces the concept of “reclaiming” public memory from the entrenched reputation and re-examines the process of reconstructing community in memory when the community being remembered was destroyed by Urban Renewal in the mid-1960s.
Douglas A. Boyd and W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134086
- eISBN:
- 9780813135892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134086.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter looks at how dominant and subordinated memories interact in an oral history project and examines the dynamic between public and historical memory through multiple community symbols such ...
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This chapter looks at how dominant and subordinated memories interact in an oral history project and examines the dynamic between public and historical memory through multiple community symbols such as schools, churches as well as a variety of symbolic events such as flooding. Additionally, it examines the role of an activist interviewer in shaping the resulting narrative that emerges from the interview.Less
This chapter looks at how dominant and subordinated memories interact in an oral history project and examines the dynamic between public and historical memory through multiple community symbols such as schools, churches as well as a variety of symbolic events such as flooding. Additionally, it examines the role of an activist interviewer in shaping the resulting narrative that emerges from the interview.
Polly Jones
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300185126
- eISBN:
- 9780300187212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300185126.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Political History
This concluding chapter traces the emergence of a different solution from literature to tensions in public memory, in light of the enormous, enduring significance of war victory as a usable past for ...
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This concluding chapter traces the emergence of a different solution from literature to tensions in public memory, in light of the enormous, enduring significance of war victory as a usable past for the Soviet regime; indeed, it was precisely through allusions to the harm to this usable past—and the consequent harm to ideological mobilization—that both terror and war trauma would be marginalized within Soviet public memory in the second half of the 1960s. The chapter analyzes the contestation over the cult of personality, playing out over the second half of the 1960s, and ultimately resulting in its extreme marginalization—if not total elimination—from Soviet discourse and public memory.Less
This concluding chapter traces the emergence of a different solution from literature to tensions in public memory, in light of the enormous, enduring significance of war victory as a usable past for the Soviet regime; indeed, it was precisely through allusions to the harm to this usable past—and the consequent harm to ideological mobilization—that both terror and war trauma would be marginalized within Soviet public memory in the second half of the 1960s. The chapter analyzes the contestation over the cult of personality, playing out over the second half of the 1960s, and ultimately resulting in its extreme marginalization—if not total elimination—from Soviet discourse and public memory.
Douglas A. Boyd and W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134086
- eISBN:
- 9780813135892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134086.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter looks at the role of the oral history interviewer in shaping the narrative when the interviewer has a distinct nostalgic impulse, which is then surprisingly countered by many former ...
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This chapter looks at the role of the oral history interviewer in shaping the narrative when the interviewer has a distinct nostalgic impulse, which is then surprisingly countered by many former residents. Residents talk about community and neighborliness but add back into the oral history narrative elements (including violence, crime, prostitution, and bootlegging) that jibe more closely with the historical reputation that the interviewer is attempting to counter, ultimately creating a more balanced historical view.Less
This chapter looks at the role of the oral history interviewer in shaping the narrative when the interviewer has a distinct nostalgic impulse, which is then surprisingly countered by many former residents. Residents talk about community and neighborliness but add back into the oral history narrative elements (including violence, crime, prostitution, and bootlegging) that jibe more closely with the historical reputation that the interviewer is attempting to counter, ultimately creating a more balanced historical view.
Martin O'Donoghue
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620306
- eISBN:
- 9781789629835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620306.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter explores the place of the Irish Party in the public memory as well as the views of grassroots supporters in the state up to the formation of the Irish National League in 1926. There is ...
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This chapter explores the place of the Irish Party in the public memory as well as the views of grassroots supporters in the state up to the formation of the Irish National League in 1926. There is detailed analysis of how the Irish Party and its leaders were remembered, including debate concerning how those from home rule backgrounds commemorated Ireland’s part in the First World War. However, pointing out that Great War commemorations extended beyond merely gatherings of former Irish Party followers, this chapter interrogates the phenomenon of Redmondite commemorations. This chapter argues that these events demonstrated a clear reservoir of support for John Redmond and the Irish Party in a state where it has previously been suggested that the former leader had been forgotten. This chapter also considers the extant networks of Irish Party supporters which persisted into the Free State such as the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the National Club.Less
This chapter explores the place of the Irish Party in the public memory as well as the views of grassroots supporters in the state up to the formation of the Irish National League in 1926. There is detailed analysis of how the Irish Party and its leaders were remembered, including debate concerning how those from home rule backgrounds commemorated Ireland’s part in the First World War. However, pointing out that Great War commemorations extended beyond merely gatherings of former Irish Party followers, this chapter interrogates the phenomenon of Redmondite commemorations. This chapter argues that these events demonstrated a clear reservoir of support for John Redmond and the Irish Party in a state where it has previously been suggested that the former leader had been forgotten. This chapter also considers the extant networks of Irish Party supporters which persisted into the Free State such as the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the National Club.
Abraham Iqbal Khan
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617031380
- eISBN:
- 9781621032564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617031380.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter fits Flood into the sport’s current public memory and explains the ways in which he is trapped within the contradictions of black activist-athletes’ purported demise. It argues that the ...
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This chapter fits Flood into the sport’s current public memory and explains the ways in which he is trapped within the contradictions of black activist-athletes’ purported demise. It argues that the relationship of co-optation that doomed Flood in the early 1970s manifests now in an anxiety that struggles to discover and reanimate the black activist-athlete as a subject of public address and agent of history.Less
This chapter fits Flood into the sport’s current public memory and explains the ways in which he is trapped within the contradictions of black activist-athletes’ purported demise. It argues that the relationship of co-optation that doomed Flood in the early 1970s manifests now in an anxiety that struggles to discover and reanimate the black activist-athlete as a subject of public address and agent of history.
Douglas A. Boyd and W. Fitzhugh Brundage
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134086
- eISBN:
- 9780813135892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134086.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines the story of the “King of Craw” John Fallis. Fallis was larger than life. He was a grocer, a bootlegger, a neighborhood boss, and a “Robin Hood” figure who gave back to the ...
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This chapter examines the story of the “King of Craw” John Fallis. Fallis was larger than life. He was a grocer, a bootlegger, a neighborhood boss, and a “Robin Hood” figure who gave back to the poor, he influenced the voting block that was the neighborhood, faked his own death, shot three policemen in one evening, and was a fugitive from the law. Although he was killed in 1929, his legend continues today and he endures as a symbolic presence for a neighborhood no longer in existence. This chapter takes a close look at the role of legend and folklore in oral history and resultant public memory of this community.Less
This chapter examines the story of the “King of Craw” John Fallis. Fallis was larger than life. He was a grocer, a bootlegger, a neighborhood boss, and a “Robin Hood” figure who gave back to the poor, he influenced the voting block that was the neighborhood, faked his own death, shot three policemen in one evening, and was a fugitive from the law. Although he was killed in 1929, his legend continues today and he endures as a symbolic presence for a neighborhood no longer in existence. This chapter takes a close look at the role of legend and folklore in oral history and resultant public memory of this community.
Brian J. Snee
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813167473
- eISBN:
- 9780813167800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813167473.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter offers a concise history of Lincoln commemoration and an introduction to public memory scholarship. Beginning with Lincoln’s assassination, the chapter examines important moments when ...
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This chapter offers a concise history of Lincoln commemoration and an introduction to public memory scholarship. Beginning with Lincoln’s assassination, the chapter examines important moments when Lincoln resurfaced in American culture, including the centennial celebration of his birth in 1909, the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922, the sesquicentennial celebration of his birth in 1959, the civil rights movement in general and Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech in particular, and the bicentennial celebration of Lincoln’s birth in 2009.Less
This chapter offers a concise history of Lincoln commemoration and an introduction to public memory scholarship. Beginning with Lincoln’s assassination, the chapter examines important moments when Lincoln resurfaced in American culture, including the centennial celebration of his birth in 1909, the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922, the sesquicentennial celebration of his birth in 1959, the civil rights movement in general and Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech in particular, and the bicentennial celebration of Lincoln’s birth in 2009.
Kristen Hoerl
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496817235
- eISBN:
- 9781496817273
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496817235.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter introduces this book’s central contention that Hollywood film and television have taught audiences that capitalism and the traditional family have triumphed over Sixties-era resistance ...
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This chapter introduces this book’s central contention that Hollywood film and television have taught audiences that capitalism and the traditional family have triumphed over Sixties-era resistance to corporate culture, structural racism, and patriarchy. Hollywood’s fictionalized portrayals of late sixties dissent routinely depicts radical protesters as problems that must be overcome to preserve national unity and the nuclear family. This introduction explains how fictionalized portrayals of Sixties-era dissent are forms of public memory that offer lessons about appropriate models of civic engagement in late-capitalist democracy. These portrayals are forms of selective amnesia, public discourse that routinely omits events and issues that defy seamless narratives of national progress and unity. The last section of the introduction provides an overview of the book’s case study chapters which are organized by recurring narrative patterns and character types across different media products since the early eighties.Less
This chapter introduces this book’s central contention that Hollywood film and television have taught audiences that capitalism and the traditional family have triumphed over Sixties-era resistance to corporate culture, structural racism, and patriarchy. Hollywood’s fictionalized portrayals of late sixties dissent routinely depicts radical protesters as problems that must be overcome to preserve national unity and the nuclear family. This introduction explains how fictionalized portrayals of Sixties-era dissent are forms of public memory that offer lessons about appropriate models of civic engagement in late-capitalist democracy. These portrayals are forms of selective amnesia, public discourse that routinely omits events and issues that defy seamless narratives of national progress and unity. The last section of the introduction provides an overview of the book’s case study chapters which are organized by recurring narrative patterns and character types across different media products since the early eighties.
Peter Knoepfel
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781447345053
- eISBN:
- 9781447345091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447345053.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter is dedicated to the resource Information, which has become an indispensable key resource for both public and private actors involved in public policy processes in recent years. ...
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This chapter is dedicated to the resource Information, which has become an indispensable key resource for both public and private actors involved in public policy processes in recent years. Information has become a real common pool resource. Nevertheless, each of the actors will try to obtain advantages from exclusive access to Information and secrecy. This is particularly true of target groups, which are the most important owners of such resources in technical policy fields. The examples presented in this chapter stem from security and risk policies, (institutional) transparency policies, economic, environmental, archive and pharmaceutical product policies. The chapter illustrates strategies of exclusion and proliferation for each of the three actor groups and other specific uses of the resource Information, particularly in policy implementation processes.Less
This chapter is dedicated to the resource Information, which has become an indispensable key resource for both public and private actors involved in public policy processes in recent years. Information has become a real common pool resource. Nevertheless, each of the actors will try to obtain advantages from exclusive access to Information and secrecy. This is particularly true of target groups, which are the most important owners of such resources in technical policy fields. The examples presented in this chapter stem from security and risk policies, (institutional) transparency policies, economic, environmental, archive and pharmaceutical product policies. The chapter illustrates strategies of exclusion and proliferation for each of the three actor groups and other specific uses of the resource Information, particularly in policy implementation processes.
Kate Parker Horigan
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496817884
- eISBN:
- 9781496817921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496817884.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter begins with a personal narrative of Katrina, positioning the author as a survivor-ethnographer, and describes the book’s origins in Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, a ...
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This chapter begins with a personal narrative of Katrina, positioning the author as a survivor-ethnographer, and describes the book’s origins in Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, a survivor-centered documentation project. The chapter explains how theoretical approaches to personal narrative, social trauma, and public memory influence the model put forth here of “public disaster,” or the public dimensions of narrating and remembering large-scale disasters. It describes the appeals and challenges of circulating personal narratives, and makes the case that, adapted in a variety of genres, those narratives perpetuate negative stereotypes. Because scholars in folklore and related fields are equipped to study vernacular responses to tragedy, employ methods of discourse analysis, and understand contextualization of narratives, they can show how survivors integrate themselves into processes of narration and commemoration, and advocate for such integration in future publication and memorialization. The introduction concludes with a chapter summary.Less
This chapter begins with a personal narrative of Katrina, positioning the author as a survivor-ethnographer, and describes the book’s origins in Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston, a survivor-centered documentation project. The chapter explains how theoretical approaches to personal narrative, social trauma, and public memory influence the model put forth here of “public disaster,” or the public dimensions of narrating and remembering large-scale disasters. It describes the appeals and challenges of circulating personal narratives, and makes the case that, adapted in a variety of genres, those narratives perpetuate negative stereotypes. Because scholars in folklore and related fields are equipped to study vernacular responses to tragedy, employ methods of discourse analysis, and understand contextualization of narratives, they can show how survivors integrate themselves into processes of narration and commemoration, and advocate for such integration in future publication and memorialization. The introduction concludes with a chapter summary.
Jessica Moody
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781382776
- eISBN:
- 9781786944009
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382776.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter considers the ‘maritimization’ of slavery in the former slave-trading port city of Liverpool. Taking John Beech’s argument that Britain’s memory of transatlantic slavery has ...
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This chapter considers the ‘maritimization’ of slavery in the former slave-trading port city of Liverpool. Taking John Beech’s argument that Britain’s memory of transatlantic slavery has predominantly been framed as a purely ‘maritime’ activity, this chapter takes a closer look at how this plays out in the country’s foremost slave-trading port city of the eighteenth century. It argues that local ‘maritime’ identity narratives themselves act to obscure Liverpool’s memory of transatlantic slavery whilst simultaneously also revealing connections with the enslaved – particularly through engagements with ‘Goree’, here presented as a site of memory. The chapter draws on a broad range of primary material to reveal and map Liverpool’s public memory discourse, from guidebooks and written histories, newspapers, anniversaries, museums, architecture and public art.Less
This chapter considers the ‘maritimization’ of slavery in the former slave-trading port city of Liverpool. Taking John Beech’s argument that Britain’s memory of transatlantic slavery has predominantly been framed as a purely ‘maritime’ activity, this chapter takes a closer look at how this plays out in the country’s foremost slave-trading port city of the eighteenth century. It argues that local ‘maritime’ identity narratives themselves act to obscure Liverpool’s memory of transatlantic slavery whilst simultaneously also revealing connections with the enslaved – particularly through engagements with ‘Goree’, here presented as a site of memory. The chapter draws on a broad range of primary material to reveal and map Liverpool’s public memory discourse, from guidebooks and written histories, newspapers, anniversaries, museums, architecture and public art.
Kristen Hoerl
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496817235
- eISBN:
- 9781496817273
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496817235.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Over the past four decades, a wide range of Hollywood films and television programs have referenced events and individuals associated with the 1960s counterculture, anti-war, and Black Power ...
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Over the past four decades, a wide range of Hollywood films and television programs have referenced events and individuals associated with the 1960s counterculture, anti-war, and Black Power movements. This book analyses narrative patterns and recurring character types across a wide variety of fictionalized film and television portrayals of the late sixties to illustrate how Hollywood has consistently derided and trivialized the period’s protest movements. The Bad Sixties argues that Hollywood has promulgated selective amnesia by decontextualizing spectacular events that have come to define the decade from the motives that drove dissidents. Hollywood’s consistently negative depictions of protest function rhetorically as civics lessons by placing radical dissent, including criticisms of Western imperialism, structural racism, patriarchy, and two-party politics, as outside of the boundaries of legitimate civic engagement in the United States. The book concludes that Hollywood’s vision of the bad sixties has bolstered conservative agendas since the Reagan Era with profound and troubling implications for democracy and social justice movements today.Less
Over the past four decades, a wide range of Hollywood films and television programs have referenced events and individuals associated with the 1960s counterculture, anti-war, and Black Power movements. This book analyses narrative patterns and recurring character types across a wide variety of fictionalized film and television portrayals of the late sixties to illustrate how Hollywood has consistently derided and trivialized the period’s protest movements. The Bad Sixties argues that Hollywood has promulgated selective amnesia by decontextualizing spectacular events that have come to define the decade from the motives that drove dissidents. Hollywood’s consistently negative depictions of protest function rhetorically as civics lessons by placing radical dissent, including criticisms of Western imperialism, structural racism, patriarchy, and two-party politics, as outside of the boundaries of legitimate civic engagement in the United States. The book concludes that Hollywood’s vision of the bad sixties has bolstered conservative agendas since the Reagan Era with profound and troubling implications for democracy and social justice movements today.
