Public memory, race, and ethnicity /
Reyes, G. Mitchell.
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars,
2010.
"The interdisciplinary dialogue that gave rise to this volume began at an international, interdisciplinary conference ... at Lewis & Clark College in 2007"--P. 12.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : public memory, race and ethnicity / G. Mitchell Reyes -- On the borders of memory / Stephen Howard Browne -- How Sacagawea became a pioneer mother : statues, ethnicity, and controversy in Portland and Santa Fe / Maureen Reed -- Whitewashing the past : the racial blindspot in "white ethnic" memories of the Youngstown steel district / Thomas Sabatini -- Ethnic contradiction and reconciliation in Japanese American internment memorials / Janis L. Edwards -- Stones the builders rejected : Freedom Summer, Kent State, and the politics of public amnesia / Mark Lawrence McPhail -- Tradition and Southern Confederate culture : manifesting whiteness through public memory at Texas A&M University / Amy Heuman and Catherine Langford -- Remembrance, reclamation, and redemption : the place of memory in Walter Mosley's The man in my basement / Kendall R. Phillips and Catherine Thomas -- Race, memory, and "keeping the faith" of the nation : President Bush addresses the NAACP / Nathaniel I. Cordova and G. Mitchell Reyes -- The memory of Katrina's flag woman and the rhetorical resurrection of the American refugee-citizen / Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre.
Collective memory
Collective memory
Ethnicity
Whites
African Americans