Decentering Whiteness and Refocusing on the Local: Reframing Debates on Confederate Monument Removal in New Orleans

Duhé, Bailey J.

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“…Despite our history, and despite the fact that many anthropologists are now working on these topics, would it be fair to say that even today this is not a sufficiently studied topic in anthropological research? The conflicts around the removal of the Confederate flag and Confederate statues from public space as well as the wider “un‐naming movement” (Platt 2020) are only the tip of the iceberg and demonstrate how much a massive archive of decolonized anthropology could have contributed to these discussions (Auslander 2018; Autry 2019; Barker 2018; Carter 2018; Duhé 2018; Gable 2018; Levanthal 2018; C. Lewis 2018; McChesney 2018; Saul and Marsh 2018). To reparations for colonialism, we can add those for environmental harm, connecting environmental justice within and outside the United States 32 .…”

Section: Counterfactual History: Futures Lost and Foundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing US anthropology

Gupta

Stoolman

2022

American Anthropologist

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After Ferguson, Standing Rock, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the crisis of refugees at the US southern border, there have been renewed calls for a racial reckoning in US anthropology. Dissatisfaction on the domestic front runs parallel to an unease over US anthropology's failure to adequately address militarism, imperialism, and predatory capitalism abroad. Finally, there is the fraught question of US anthropology's oversized influence within world anthropologies. We propose that a reassessment of US anthropology might fruitfully begin with some counterfactual history. How would US anthropology been different had the founding generations conceptualized the discipline as a decolonizing project? What topics or themes might have become central to US anthropology? How might our methods have been different? To make anthropology departments more diverse, inclusive, and equitable, we need to do more than add faculty and students of color. Despite being a field whose central concept is "culture," we have paid far too little attention to the culture of anthropology departments. Do unexamined practices of "white-norming" that shape the everyday lives of faculty and students in anthropology departments persistently "Other"-marginalize and alienate-people of color?

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Section: Counterfactual History: Futures Lost and Foundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonizing US anthropology

Gupta

Stoolman

2022

American Anthropologist

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“…The distress experienced by people of color when confronted by a Confederate monument has been documented (Carter, 2018; Duhé, 2018) and must not be taken lightly. For some, these are symbols of oppression and marginalization, buttressed by a history of racial inequality and injustice.…”

Section: Understanding Reconciliation Processesmentioning

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Reframing Confederate Monuments: Memory, Power, and Identity

Evans

Lees

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective This article highlights the contours of the Confederate monument debate, frames the contributions to the special issue, and underscores important emergent themes from the collection as a whole. Method By way of introduction, we articulate and examine the issue of Confederate monument contestation in terms of three concurrent debates and then provide theoretical synthesis across the various scholarly contributions presented in this special issue. Results Several themes emerge. Memorials are rhetorical and evocative by design, articulating messages of memory, identity, and power. They are part of a broader living narrative giving cultural shape to the city and its inhabitants. Contesting them is part of a transitional justice process required of a society moving from racial oppression and marginalization toward racial equality and social justice. Conclusions The contemporary debate over Confederate monuments holds deep theoretical implications for scholars across the disciplines of the arts, social sciences, and humanities. Consequently, the academy is significantly positioned to speak to this debate through its various avenues of community engagement.

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“…Scholars have drawn attention to how people of color experience distress from Confederate monuments as they are tied to their own lived experiences of racism and are viewed as symbols utilized to enforce ideologies of racial hierarchy in the present (e.g., Carter, 2018; Duhé, 2018). Although, as Barker (2018) argues, simply removing monuments and statues will not fully redress structural inequalities, their removal is one means through which racial inequalities could be publicly recognized.…”

Section: Memorialization Requires Acknowledgment Of Power Structuresmentioning

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Memorialization as a Mechanism of Power in the Present: The Creation and Contestation of National Narratives in the Wake of Internal Armed Conflict

Billingsley

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective The objectives of this article are to understand how national narratives are created and maintained, which discourses are utilized, and what inhibits people from understanding perspectives divergent from their own within the context of postarmed conflict processes of transitional justice. Through examining these objectives, I outline what studies of transitional justice can contribute to understandings of Confederate memory in the United States. Method I conducted 14 months of ethnographic research with conflict victims after a decade‐long internal armed conflict in Nepal. Results I argue finding new ways to conceptualize and discuss that Confederate monuments in the United States require acknowledgement of the economic and political power structures that constrain equitable access to public memory projects. Conclusion I conclude that how memorialization processes obfuscate, rather than illuminate, marginalized histories in the present, and legitimate ongoing inequalities must be questioned and redressed.

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Decentering Whiteness and Refocusing on the Local: Reframing Debates on Confederate Monument Removal in New Orleans

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Decolonizing US anthropology

Decolonizing US anthropology

Introduction to the Special Issue on Reframing Confederate Monuments: Memory, Power, and Identity

Memorialization as a Mechanism of Power in the Present: The Creation and Contestation of National Narratives in the Wake of Internal Armed Conflict

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