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Wagner, Jacob A.

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The myth of Liberty Place: Race and public memory in New Orleans, 1874--1993 (Louisiana).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The myth of Liberty Place: Race and public memory in New Orleans, 1874--1993 (Louisiana)./
Author:	Wagner, Jacob A.
Description:	236 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1553.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3127791
ISBN:	9780496750542

The myth of Liberty Place: Race and public memory in New Orleans, 1874--1993 (Louisiana).
Wagner, Jacob A.

The myth of Liberty Place: Race and public memory in New Orleans, 1874--1993 (Louisiana). - 236 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1553.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Orleans, 2004.

This work presents a critical history of the Liberty Monument in New Orleans. Established in 1891, the obelisk is a tangible expression of the "myth of Liberty Place" an influential public memory and historical narrative that justified the ideology of white supremacy and the political exclusion of African-Americans. The establishment of the monument coincided with the production of a memorial landscape that affirmed a new peculiar institution of racial segregation in New Orleans.

ISBN: 9780496750542Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017474
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

The myth of Liberty Place: Race and public memory in New Orleans, 1874--1993 (Louisiana).
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520 $a In the early 20th century the myth of Liberty Place was reconstructed as a political reform narrative of "corruption" versus "good government." In this period, class and partisan differences among whites re-emerged in the context of urban politics. In 1932 city officials added new text to the monument, re-asserting the link between the battle for "white supremacy" in 1874 and the battle for "good government" in 1930s New Orleans.
520 $a A period of heightened political use of the monument began in 1948 when the Times-Picayune re-published the racist political platform of the Crescent City White League. In this context, the battle lines were redrawn as legal challenges to the system of racial subordination began to undermine black political exclusion. After 1965 the monument was contested as a prominent symbol of the city's racist past. During this period the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People challenged the monument and the myth of Liberty Place.
520 $a Due to its prominent location on Canal Street in the central business district, conflicts over the public space of "Liberty Place" are a re-occurring theme that illustrates the competition between civic-religious values and utilitarian-economic values in a capitalist society. From 1974 to 1994, three mayoral administrations worked to "put the monument in its place." The use of the monument by David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s and 1980s exacerbated the conflict and in 1993 the City Council declared the monument a public nuisance. The monument's current location in an obscure site behind a parking garage speaks volumes about the unresolved history of racism and democracy in New Orleans.
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