Surprise Castle
Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory

Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory - Paperback

$34.99
Quantity
01

Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with

Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew DensonPublish date:2/20/2017Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469630830ISBN-10:1469630834UPC:9781469630830Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Indigenous, United States, Native American StudiesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.68 inchesWeight:1.0318Product ID:SCYA7RP485
The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples. In this book, Andrew Denson explores the public memory of Cherokee removal through an examination of memorials, historic sites, and tourist attractions dating from the early twentieth century to the present. White southerners, Denson argues, embraced the Trail of Tears as a story of Indian disappearance. Commemorating Cherokee removal affirmed white possession of southern places, while granting them the moral satisfaction of acknowledging past wrongs. During segregation and the struggle over black civil rights, removal memorials reinforced whites' authority to define the South's past and present. Cherokees, however, proved capable of repossessing the removal memory, using it for their own purposes during a time of crucial transformation in tribal politics and U.S. Indian policy. In considering these representations of removal, Denson brings commemoration of the Indian past into the broader discussion of race and memory in the South.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469630830ISBN-10:1469630834UPC:9781469630830Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Indigenous, United States, Native American StudiesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.68 inchesWeight:1.0318Product ID:SCYA7RP485
Denson, Andrew: - Andrew Denson teaches history at Western Carolina University.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Contributor(s)

Andrew Denson

Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.

Recently Viewed

View All