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Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory by Andrew Denson (review)

Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory by Andrew Denson... remembrance of Reconstruction comparable in influence to their early- twentieth-century predecessors’ baneful legacy. Thomas J. Brown thomas j. brown, professor of history at the University of South Carolina, is the author of Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory. By Andrew Denson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 304. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $29.95.) Cherokee removal is perhaps the most well known episode in Native American history. In Monuments to Absence, Andrew Denson explores how and why this came to be by exploring public commemorations of Cherokee removal, focusing on the American South and Oklahoma from the 1920s to the present. This multivalent study highlights a diverse range of white and Indian heritage workers, business professionals, politicians, and activ- ists. Other scholars of memory have pointed out that “white heritage work- ers in the South generally excluded the histories of people of color from public commemoration until after the civil rights movement” (2). Denson, however, demonstrates that white southerners zealously commemorated removal beginning in the 1920s and continue to do so now. The reasons why have shifted http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory by Andrew Denson (review)

Snyder, Christina
The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 8 (1) – Mar 6, 2018
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remembrance of Reconstruction comparable in influence to their early- twentieth-century predecessors’ baneful legacy. Thomas J. Brown thomas j. brown, professor of history at the University of South Carolina, is the author of Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory. By Andrew Denson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Pp. 304. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $29.95.) Cherokee removal is perhaps the most well known episode in Native American history. In Monuments to Absence, Andrew Denson explores how and why this came to be by exploring public commemorations of Cherokee removal, focusing on the American South and Oklahoma from the 1920s to the present. This multivalent study highlights a diverse range of white and Indian heritage workers, business professionals, politicians, and activ- ists. Other scholars of memory have pointed out that “white heritage work- ers in the South generally excluded the histories of people of color from public commemoration until after the civil rights movement” (2). Denson, however, demonstrates that white southerners zealously commemorated removal beginning in the 1920s and continue to do so now. The reasons why have shifted

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The Journal of the Civil War Era – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Mar 6, 2018

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