EJI Critiques of Confederate Statuary, Dixie Monumentalization, and Charlottesville Legacies

Abstract

This chapter analyzes the presences of lynching historiographies that Stevenson and the EJI challenge at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum. From a critical genealogical standpoint, the authors draw out the multi-directionality and competitive nature of Dixie monumentalization and the “narrative wars” in the South. This part of the book also specifically explains how the 2017 Unite the Right rally had everything to do with the living legacy, and iconography, of racial terrorism even though many had thought we were in a “post-racial” moment.