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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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New Directions in Commemoration: Women, Working Class, and People of Color Enter the U.S. Commemorative Landscape

New Directions in Commemoration: Women, Working Class, and People of Color Enter the U.S. Commemorative Landscape

Bergman, Teresa

Hardcover

Business General

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 3, 2028

ISBN10: 1538158523
ISBN13: 9781538158524
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 3 2028
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

There is a move across the country to expand traditional memory practices and embrace new forms of commemoration are emerging. Instead of the traditional depiction of one individual, or a great man approach to commemoration, this book illuminates five commemorative sites that embrace diversity and challenge conventional forms of commemoration. These sites include the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Memorial, the Women's Rights Pioneers Memorial in Central Park, the Anthracite Miners Museum and Coal Mine tour and the Eckley Mining Village, and the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial.

The U.S. commemorative landscape is changing, and it is important to take note of this because it reveals many of the assumptions concerning civic and national duty, and patriotism. One of the main challenges with incorporating diversity into commemoration is resisting a universalizing depiction of women, people of color, working class people, and LGBTQ persons; and incorporating the effects of race, economic class, and gender orientation in these representations. Another challenge is refraining from celebratory commemoration in order to recognize the darker chapters of U.S. history that have been critical to the country's development. Each site chosen for analysis in this book engages more or less successfully with the politics of its time, but questions remain for how we define commemoration and who and what gets commemorated.

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