Between remembrance and repair : commemorating racial violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi / Claire Whitlinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitlinger, Claire, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Philadelphia.

Civil rights movements.

Memorialization--Mississippi--Philadelphia.

Memorialization.

Philadelphia (Miss.)--History--20th century.

Philadelphia (Miss.).

Philadelphia (Miss.)--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Few places are more notorious for civil rights-era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" murders. Yet in a striking turn of events, Philadelphia has become a beacon in Mississippi's racial reckoning in the decades since. Claire Whitlinger investigates how this community came to acknowledge its past, offering significant insight into the social impacts of commemoration. Whitlinger expands our understanding of how commemorations both emerge out of and catalyze associated memory movements"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Philadelphia (Mississippi) story: remembering in black and white

From countermemory to collective memory

Prosecuting Edgar Ray Killen

Legislating civil and human rights education

Commissioning truth and reconciliation

The transformative capacity of commemorating racial violence: comparing the 1989 and 2004 commemorations

Commemorating racial violence as intergroup contact

Commemoration is a constant struggle

Fifty years forward.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908577-3-6

979-88-908577-4-3

1-4696-5634-5

1-4696-5635-3