1st Edition
Combating Oppression with New Commemorations
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword, by Nedra K. Lee, Richard Paul Benjamin, and Christopher C. Fennell
1. Introduction: Commemorative Engagements, by Christopher C. Fennell
2. Monuments of Movement: Purposeful Remembering and Forgetting of the 1932 La Matanza (Massacre) in Western El Salvador, by Heriberto Erquicia Cruz and Kathryn E. Sampeck
3. Decolonizing Monument Designation in the Caribbean: Native Raizal Heritage and Cultural Patrimony on Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands, Colombia, by Tracie Mayfield
4. Reparative Commemorations of Emancipation in the Modern World, by J. R. Kerr-Ritchie
5. Relationships between Governance, Research, and Communities: Striving for Restorative Justice for St. Eustatius in the Caribbean, by Jay B. Haviser
6. Cultural Revitalization and a Seat of Common Heritage in Grenada, by Oliver Benoit
7. “Now Our Remembered are Forgotten:” An Archaeology of the National Transgender Memorial Site in the United Kingdom, by Owen Hurcum and Colleen Morgan
8. A New Memorial for an Old Forgotten Tragedy: The 1871 Massacre in Los Angeles, by Judy Chui-Hua Chung and Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong
9. What Would Mother Jones Have Said? The Progressive Miners of America and Their Monument, by Helaine Silverman
10. As We Continue to Wipe the Tears: Sequels of the First Nation Boarding School System and Issues of Repatriation, by Elizabeth Matilda A. Mantebeah, Lisa Hunt, Mikalen Running Fisher, Kara Fox, Haley Omeasoo, and Kelly J. Dixon
11. Monuments and Memorials: Art, Truth-telling, and Memory, by Valerie Ann Johnson
12. Asserting Rights and Justice through Special Black American Yards, by Grey Gundaker
13. A Tale of Three Cemeteries: The Challenge of Commemorating the Past, by Charles Ewen, Ryan Nicholas Schacht, and Eric Bailey
Index
Biography
Christopher C. Fennell is Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an annual Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago, USA.
