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Since the Civil War whites and blacks have struggled over the meanings and uses of the Southern past. Indeed, today's controversies over flying the Confederate flag, renaming schools and streets, and commemorating the Civil War and the civil rights movement are only the latest examples of this ongoing divisive contest over issues of regional identity and heritage. The Southern Past argues that these battles are ultimately about who has the power to determine what we remember of the past, and whether that remembrance will honor all Southerners or only select groups. For more than a century after the Civil War, elite white Southerners systematically refined a version of the past that sanctioned their racial privilege and power. In the process, they filled public spaces with museums and monuments that made their version of the past sacrosanct. Yet, even as segregation and racial discrimination worsened, blacks contested the white version of Southern history and demanded inclusion. Streets became sites for elaborate commemorations of emancipation and schools became centers for the study of black history. This counter-memory surged forth, and became a potent inspiration for the civil rights movement and the black struggle to share a common Southern past rather than a divided one. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's searing exploration of how those who have the political power to represent the past simultaneously shape the present and determine the future is a valuable lesson as we confront our national past to meet the challenge of current realities.

Memory --- Group identity --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Social aspects --- Southern States --- Civilization. --- History. --- Race relations.

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This collection of essays explores "such topics as same-race lynchings, black resistance to white violence, and the political motivations for lynching ... The book raises important questions about Southern history, race relations, and the nature of American violence."--Back cover.

Lynching --- African Americans --- Racism --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Homicide --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Race relations --- History. --- Crimes against --- History --- Southern States --- Black people --- Anti-lynching movements --- Social sciences --- Criminology --- Criminology.

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Over the centuries Americans have turned to torture during moments of crisis, and have debated its legitimacy and efficacy in defense of law and order. Tracing these historical attempts to adapt torture to democratic values, Fitzhugh Brundage reveals the recurring struggle over what limits Americans are willing to impose on the power of the state.

Torture --- Justification (Ethics) --- History. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Abu Ghraib. --- Andersonville. --- Anti-Imperialists. --- Bush. --- CIA. --- Geneva Conventions. --- George Brandle. --- Guantanamo Bay. --- Jon Burge. --- Korean War. --- McKinley. --- My Lai. --- POWs. --- Philippines War. --- Reagan. --- Third Degree. --- Vietnam War. --- enhanced interrogation. --- exceptionalism.

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Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars may profit from a careful examination of previous assumptions and conclusions along the lines suggested by the studies in this important new collection. Based on the March 20

African American women --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Social conditions --- Segregation --- Southern States --- Race relations --- History --- Black people