Black Memory Landscapes

Sites of Remembrance and Resistance
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-08940-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Rethinking Memory, Representation and Human Rights

Black Memory Landscapes: Sites of Remembrance and Resistance offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Black communities remember and commemorate their histories. In doing so, the volume demonstrates how Black activism, critical scholarship, and local memory practices combine to identify and enact new perspectives on memory landscapes in the USA and across the globe.

From museums and memorials in commemorative landscapes to everyday lived landscapes and spaces where stories circulate, remembered Black stories express resilience, community, and hope among memory landscapes often dominated by hegemonic histories. Black Memory Landscapes: Sites of Remembrance and Resistance presents a broad array of powerful stories and interrogates how they challenge and extend traditional understandings of memory landscapes. The volume covers a wide range of topics, from legacies of slavery to the Civil Rights Movement and contemporary issues of racial justice, and features case studies based on traditional commemorative landscapes like Freedom Park in North Carolina and New York City’s African Burial Ground, as well as new locations such as the Paul Robeson House and Museum in Philadelphia. Featuring both established and emerging scholars of Black public memory from a range of disciplines, Black Memory Landscapes: Sites of Remembrance and Resistance examines how stories of Black history have emerged in commemorative landscapes, are appearing in new commemorative locations, have surfaced in other spaces of memory, and are intertwined with the African diaspora.

The volume offers a wide-ranging analysis for those who wish to understand how memory continues to resonate among Black Americans as a form of commemoration, a means of organising, and a source of inspiration. This volume will therefore be of interest to researchers, academics and students with interests in memory and heritage, African American studies, and the history of the USA.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aden, Roger

Davis, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Roger C. Aden and Patricia G. Davis; Part 1—Repairing the Past: Black Reparative Memory 1. Crafting a Necessary Space: The Case of the North Carolina Freedom Park Victoria J. Gallagher 2. Another Piece of My History Kept from Erasure: Making Black History Visible at NYC’s African Burial Ground Amy Sodaro 3. Navigating A White Habitus: Black Resistance, Memory, and Temporality at the Whitney Plantation Shelby R. Crow 4. Centering Black Women in Public Spaces: Institutionalizing Black Geographies of Public Memory Marci B. Littlefield 5. Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Patricia G. Davis 6. Rhetorics of Redemption: Race, Reparative Memory, and the Reckoning of 2020 Stephen E. Rahko and Byron B. Craig Part 2—Resisting the Past: Black Memories and Public Critique 7. Understanding a Violent Memoryscape and Building Better Memoryships: The Wilmington Coup d’état of 1898 Ariel Seay 8. Ghosts of New Orleans: Memories of Death and Race in the Crescent City Jenny Woodley 9. Defying Displacement: The Activist Legacy of The Paul Robeson House and Museum in West Philadelphia Amy E. Potter, Matthew R. Cook, LaToya E. Eaves, Perry L. Carter, and Candace Bright Hall-Wurst 10.Tokenism, (In)visibility, or Presence: A Case Study of Three Memory Spaces in West Chester, PA,” Casey R. Schmitt, Tyanna Alexander, and Lenora Overton; Part 3—Recovering the Past: Black Vernacular Memories 11. Our Hope, Our Fight, Our Land: African American Heirs’ Property and the Work of Vernacular Commemoration Celnisha Dangerfield 12. The Black Devotional Movement and its Community Aesthetic: Honoring the Contributions of Queer, Womanist Memory Workers of the African Diaspora MacKenzie River Foy 13. Black Stories in White Spaces: Working through History, Memory, and Identity in the Rural U.S. Stephanie Coley 14. A Place Made Holy: Constructing the Sacred at George Floyd Memorial Square Skyler Meeks Part 4—Reconnecting with the Past: Black Public Memory and the African Diaspora 15. Black Family Memory and African Diasporic History Nemata Blyden 16. African Migration Stories: The Role of Memories in Contemporary Global Meaning-MakingTo yin Falola 17. A Fusion of Traditional and New Memoryscapes: Geo-spatial Technologies and Built Heritage Preservation in Benin as Postcolonial Memory Praxis Jessica M. Parr, H. Killion Mokwete, Bahare Sanaie-Movahed, and Patricia G. Davis.

Über Autor(innen)

Roger C. Aden is Charles E. Zumkehr Professor of Speech Communication in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University, USA. His research explores the rhetorical construction and interpretation of the meanings of physical and imagined places. He is the author of Popular Stories and Promised Lands: Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages (1999), Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory (2014) and Childhood Memory Spaces: How Enduring Memories of Childhood Places Shape Our Lives (2018). He is also editor of Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories (2018) and US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall (2018).

Patricia Davis is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, USA. Her research lies at the nexus of rhetoric and media studies and explores public memory, identity, race, gender, and representation. She is the author of Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity (2016), which won the Best Book Award from both the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association and the Critical/Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Studies Association. She is also the co-editor, with Byron Craig and Stephen Rahko, of Rupturing Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Politics of Race and Popular Culture Since Ferguson (2024).