Lexington Books
Pages: 208
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-8771-5 • Hardback • December 2013 • $104.00 • (£80.00)
978-1-4985-6423-6 • Paperback • July 2017 • $42.99 • (£33.00)
978-0-7391-8772-2 • eBook • December 2013 • $40.50 • (£31.00)
Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV),
History / United States / 20th Century,
Political Science / Civil Rights,
Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
Matthew Mace Barbee is chair of the English Department at Siena Heights University where he teaches courses on U.S., African-American, and multi-ethnic literatures.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
CHAPTER I: Introduction: Memory and the Imagined Community
CHAPTER II: Memory Between Civil War and Civil Rights: 1890-1948
CHAPTER III: Civil Rights and Memory: 1948-1970
CHAPTER IV: The Richmond Renaissance; Neoliberalism and Multicultural Memory: 1970-1992
CHAPTER V: Memories of Masculinity: Arthur Ashe in Body, Word and Deed
CHAPTER VI: Popular Culture, HIV/AIDS, and Memories of Arthur Ashe, Jr.
CHAPTER VII: Memory and Public Discourse: 1992-1996
Chapter VIII: Conclusion: Race, Memory and Masculinity
Bibliography
Barbee provides a detailed and thoughtful account of struggles over public memory in the civil rights era. Indeed, for many of the events examined, his is the most thorough investigation to date. . . .Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory makes important contributions to the study of historical commemoration in the recent South.
— Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Barbee lays the foundation for a thorough analysis of the debate over the installation of the Ashe monument. Barbee analyzes this debate well. . . . Barbee is convincing in his argument that the direct, racist power of the monuments has waned and that despite the efforts of neo-Confederates, the Lost Cause ideology that gave birth to Monument Avenue has become a residual culture. . . .[This] case study is an important and suggestive framework for scholars.
— Journal of Southern History