New Directions in Commemoration
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781538158524 (ISBN)
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During times of cultural and social change, there are challenges to decorum, and the U.S. commemorative landscape is at the center of these changes. Lately, there has been a push to eliminate Confederate statues and memorials and to incorporate women, people of color, and the negative episodes of U.S. history into the commemorative landscape.
Here, senior scholar Teresa Bergman investigates this new direction of commemoration in the U.S., and particularly in the messages communicated at sites that challenge traditional commemorative practices. Bergman looks at five sites: the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Memorial, the Women’s Rights Pioneers Memorial in Central Park, the Anthracite Miners Museum and Coal Mine tour and the Eckley Mining Village, and the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial.
The U.S. commemorative landscape is changing, and it is important to take note of this because it reveals many of the assumptions concerning civic and national duty, and patriotism. One of the main challenges with incorporating diversity into commemoration is resisting a universalizing depiction of women, people of color, working class people, and LGBTQ persons; and incorporating the effects of race, economic class, and gender orientation in these representations. Another challenge is refraining from celebratory commemoration in order to recognize the darker chapters of U.S. history that have been critical to the country’s development. Each site chosen for analysis in this book engages more or less successfully with the politics of its time, but questions remain for how we define commemoration and who and what gets commemorated.
This book adds to the considerable research on commemoration by providing five case studies of locations that explore new directions in commemoration and embrace diversity and representation of those populations traditionally left out of America’s national commemorative landscape.
Teresa Bergman is a Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at the University of the Pacific. She has taught for twenty–eight years at the postsecondary level, and her course topics range from documentary film history and communication criticism to film production, and she has professional documentary film production experience. The focus of Bergman’s research is analyzing the changing representations of patriotism, nationalism, citizenship, and gender in U. S. public memory sites. Her research incorporates an interdisciplinary methodology that includes rhetoric, documentary film theory, museum studies, memory studies, and critical/cultural studies. These varied theoretical approaches help to illuminate the intersection of location, memory, and representation. She has published two previous books on public memory: Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites (2013) and The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering Women in Public Spa
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Lower East Side Tenement Museum
III. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Memorial and the Women's Rights Pioneers Memorial
IV. Anthracite Miners Museum and Coal Mine Tour and the Eckley Mining Village
V. Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
VI. Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.12.2026 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 60 b/w photos |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781538158524 / 9781538158524 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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