Public memory, race, and ethnicity
By: edited by G. Mitchell Reyes
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781443822770
Subjects: Collective memory; Race relations; Ethnicity; Race identity; Whites; African Americans; Ethnic relations
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : public memory, race and ethnicity / G. Mitchell Reyes; title: On the borders of memory / Stephen Howard Browne; title: How Sacagawea became a pioneer mother : statues, ethnicity, and controversy in Portland and Santa Fe / Maureen Reed; title: Whitewashing the past : the racial blindspot in "white ethnic" memories of the Youngstown steel district / Thomas Sabatini; title: Ethnic contradiction and reconciliation in Japanese American internment memorials / Janis L. Edwards; title: Stones the builders rejected : Freedom Summer, Kent State, and the politics of public amnesia / Mark Lawrence McPhail; title: Tradition and Southern Confederate culture : manifesting whiteness through public memory at Texas A&M University / Amy Heuman and Catherine Langford; title: Remembrance, reclamation, and redemption : the place of memory in Walter Mosley's The man in my basement / Kendall R. Phillips and Catherine Thomas; title: Race, memory, and "keeping the faith" of the nation : President Bush addresses the NAACP / Nathaniel I. Cordova and G. Mitchell Reyes; title: The memory of Katrina's flag woman and the rhetorical resurrection of the American refugee-citizen / Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre.