Associated Readings

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  • Pierre Nora, Realms of Memory (Les lieux de mémoire): Rethinking the French Past (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).

  • Aloïs Riegl, “The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Origin” (1903), trans. Kurt W. Forster and Diane Ghirardo, Oppositions 25 (1982), 21–50.

  • Lewis Mumford, “The Death of the Monument,” Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art (London: Faber and Faber, 1937), 263–270.

  • Sigfried Giedion, “The Need for a New Monumentality” in New Architecture and City Planning: A Symposium, ed. Paul Zucker (New York: Philosophical Library, 1944), 549– 568.

  • James Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993).

  • Angels Carabi, Interview with Toni Morrison, Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women 9, no. 3 (Spring 1994).

  • Judith Baca, “Whose Monument Where? Public Art in a Many-Cultured Society,” in Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, ed. Suzanne Lacy (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995), 133.

  • Andreas Huyssen, “Monumental Seduction,” New German Critique 69 (Autumn 1996): 181–200.

  • Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997).

  • Sergiusz Michalski, Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage, 1870-1997 (London: Reaktion, 1998).

  • Roger C. Echo-Hawk, "Ancient History in the New World: Integrating Oral Traditions and the Archaeological Record in Deep Time," American Antiquity 65, No. 2 (April 2000): 267-290. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2694059

  • Tony Bennett, “Stored Virtue: Memory, the Body and the Evolutionary Museum,” in Regimes of Memory, ed. Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin (New York: Routledge, 2002), 40–54.

  • Jaś Elsner, “Iconoclasm and the Preservation of Memory,” in Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade, ed. Robert S. Nelson and Margaret Olin (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003), 209-231.

  • Johanna C. Kardux, “Monuments of the Black Atlantic. Slavery Memorials in the United States and the Netherlands,” in Blackening Europe: The African American Presence, ed. Heike Raphael-Hernandez (London: Routledge, 2004).

  • Dell Upton, “Why Do Contemporary Monuments Talk So Much?” in Commemoration in America: Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory, ed. David Gobel and Daves Rossell (2013).

  • Harriet F. Senie, Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11 (2016).

  • "A Questionnaire on Monuments," October 165 (Summer 2018): 3-177.

  • Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Mia L. Bagneris, “The Spirit of Louisiana: Painting Racialised Geographies in the Slave-Holding Atlantic,” in Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, ed. Katie A. Pfohl (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 81.

  • Derek H. Alderman, Jordan P. Brasher, and Owen J. Dwyer, III, “Memorials and Monuments,” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd ed., vol. 9 (2020), 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10201-X

Memorial Sites: Valongo Wharf (Rio de Janeiro) + Congo Square (New Orleans)

Recalling Plantation Landscapes: River Road (Louisiana) + Fireburn (St Croix)

Monumental Iconoclasms: Mexico City + New Orleans

Bulbancha (Louisiana) & Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia)