Week 10: Living History in African American Memorials and other Contemporary Impulses

Reading 1: Blight, Chapter 10, "Fifty Years of Freedom and Reunion"

Describe the ways that African American progress continued to be limited and defined by a white vision at the turn of the 20^th century and how African Americans responded.

What do you think are Blight’s overarching contributions in his volume Race and Reunion?

Reading 2: Dell Upton, “The Long Shadow of the Civil War” in The Civil War in Art and Memory, ed. Kirk Savage (New Haven, 2016).

Using the Wilmington Memorial (and the massacre it commemorated), what does Upton reveal about the problems and promise of African American monuments?