Amending our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory is an edited volume presenting original research from established and emerging scholars of public and collective memory. Contributors focus on topics including the memory of race and slavery, wars of oppression, and regional and ethnic identities to interrogate how we as collectives remember, commemorate, discuss, forget, and question what is historically revealed, appropriated, silenced, or concealed from public discourse. Through analyses of a wide range of cultural texts and contexts, contributors to this volume demonstrate the crucial role of communication and media in shaping public opinion—and our collective present more broadly—in an effort to amend our painful histories.

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Amending our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory is a collection of original research from prominent and emerging scholars of public and collective memory. Through critical rhetorical and qualitative analysis, contributors show how media and place shape our collective presents as an effort to amend our hurtful pasts.
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Chapter 1: Reconciliation or Adaptive Racism? Truth, Rage, and Embrace in “I’m Not Racist”Author: John B. Hatch, Eastern University

Chapter 2: Documenting a Horrific Memory

Author: Ariel E. Seay-Howard, North Carolina State University

Chapter 3: 21st Century Black Magic: An Analysis of Afrofuturism and Invention in A Black Lady Sketch Show as an Avenue Toward Black Liberation

Author: Natalie Weathers, Howard University

Chapter 4. Junction Historicizing of Conflict and Sporting Competition: Communicating Resolution and Reconciliation

Author: Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University

Chapter 5: Patterns of Discursive Amnesia and Intentional Erasures: Collective Memory and Political Mechanizations of Nationalism

Author 1: Victoria A. Newsom, Olympic College

Author 2: Lara Martin Lengel, Bowling Green State University

Chapter 6: “Franklin, My Dear”: Post-racial Counter Narratives and Civil War Public Memory

Author 1: Patricia Davis, Northeastern University

Author 2: Christina Moss, University of Memphis

Chapter 7: Hiding Behind Heritage in Post-Communist Albania

Author: Dana F. Phelps, Norfolk Academy

Chapter 8: Out of Place to In Place: Recognizing and Re/Membering the Hawaiian DiasporaAuthor: Rona Tamiko Halualani, San Jose State University

Chapter 9: Memories of Labor: The Anthracite Coal Miners’ Memorial Amid Landscapes of Deindustrialization

Author: Melissa R. Meade, Seton Hall University

Chapter 10: ¿Quiénes somos? The Representation of the Latino Identity in the “¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States” exhibit

Author 1: Lillian Agosto Maldonado, Howard University

Author 2: Natalie Febo, National Museum of American Latino

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Amending our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory is a collection of original research from prominent and emerging scholars of public and collective memory. Through critical rhetorical and qualitative analysis, contributors show how media and place shape our collective presents as an effort to amend our hurtful pasts.
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ISBN
9781666964257
Publisert
2025-02-19
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
531 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
312

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Biografisk notat

Nina Gjoci is lecturer of public memory in the Department of Communication Culture and Media Studies at Howard University.