Race, Place, and Memory
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African American citizens
Author_Margaret M. Mulrooney
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black population
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collective history
collective memories
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Decoration Day
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Freedom
Jim Crow
Klan parades
memorials
NC
North Carolina
Past
public history
race riots
racial conflicts
racial harmony
racial tensions
revolutionary acts
Slavery
Tourism
violence
Wilmington
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- ISBN 9780813054926
- Weight: 715g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2018
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts in different ways to fit specific narratives, Race, Place, and Memory charts the ebb and flow of racial tension in Wilmington, North Carolina, from the 1730s to the present day.
Margaret Mulrooney argues that while the port city has long celebrated its white colonial revolutionary origins, it has ignored the revolutionary acts of its African American citizens who also demanded freedom – first from slavery and later from Jim Crow discrimination. Lingering beneath the surface of daily life, she shows, are collective memories of violence and alienation that were exacerbated by the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and racial conflicts that occurred in the city throughout the twentieth century. Critically evaluating the riot’s centennial commemoration, which she helped organize, Mulrooney makes a case for public history projects that recognize the history-making authority of all community members and prompt us to reconsider the memories we inherit.
Margaret Mulrooney argues that while the port city has long celebrated its white colonial revolutionary origins, it has ignored the revolutionary acts of its African American citizens who also demanded freedom – first from slavery and later from Jim Crow discrimination. Lingering beneath the surface of daily life, she shows, are collective memories of violence and alienation that were exacerbated by the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and racial conflicts that occurred in the city throughout the twentieth century. Critically evaluating the riot’s centennial commemoration, which she helped organize, Mulrooney makes a case for public history projects that recognize the history-making authority of all community members and prompt us to reconsider the memories we inherit.
