Racial Terrorism by Marouf A. Hasian Nicholas S. Paliewicz

Author:Marouf A. Hasian, Nicholas S. Paliewicz [Marouf A. Hasian, Nicholas S. Paliewicz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Discrimination, Language Arts & Disciplines, Rhetoric, Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies, History, United States, State & Local, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV)
ISBN: 9781496831781
Google: bdAMEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2020-12-28T03:19:48+00:00

Figure 2: Lurleen B. Wallace Office Building, Montgomery, Alabama. Photo by the authors.

Keep in mind Schmidt’s critique in realizing that the state of Alabama has 121 monuments to the Confederacy, and that relics of this Confederate past are located in schools, public buildings and offices, and memorials and museums.18 This is one of the reasons why in chapter 5 we underscored the point that Bryan Stevenson’s and the EJI’s historicizing is not the only “history” of fraught Southern pasts.

When one travels to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, one cannot help noticing this surplus of Confederate symbolism, and the surfeit of memories, that have become indelible parts of the cityscapes of Montgomery and the state of Alabama. Observable from the apex of the Lynching Memorial, for instance, is the Alabama State Capitol, a structure glossed with white paint and surrounded by memorials to former Confederate soldiers. Across the street is the Lurleen B. Wallace Office Building, named after the forty-sixth governor of Alabama, who succeeded her infamous husband, George Wallace (fig. 2).

It is also hard to miss the eighty-eight-foot-tall Confederate Monument, mentioned above, which commemorates the fallen Confederate soldiers who fought the “War of Northern Aggression.” From an interpellation standpoint, how can visitors avoid being “hailed” as they walk up and down a grand staircase that appears directly in front of the capitol? In these politicized webs of signification, to be Southern, or to be American in this part of the country, is to be immersed in Dixie life. The EJI’s works must sense that visible and invisible inclusionary and exclusionary boundaries are being constructed through bricks and mortar and these Confederate ideological assemblages.

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