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.
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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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.
Chapter 1: Reconciliation or Adaptive Racism? Truth, Rage, and Embrace
in Im Not RacistAuthor: 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
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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
Nina Gjoci is lecturer of public memory in the Department of Communication Culture and Media Studies at Howard University.