No Common Ground - Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

"When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this ... narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning"--

About the author

Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.

Product details

• Authors: Karen L Cox, Karen L. Cox
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781469662671
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-6267-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous