Race and Collective Memory Bibliography

(courtesy Jacob Aaron Wagner)

Books and Book Chapters

Blight, David. 2001. Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American memory. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

Bodnar, John. 1992. Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Connerton, Paul. 1989. How societies remember. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Dabakis, Melissa. 1999. Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.

Gillis, John R. 1994. Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Gundaker, Grey, editor. 1998. Keep your head to the sky: interpreting African-American home ground. University Press of Virginia.

Halbwachs, Maurice. 1980. [1950] The Collective Memory. Translated by Francis J. Ditter, Jr. and Vida Yazdi Ditter. New York: Harper and Row.

Handler, Richard. 1991. Who Owns the Past? History, Cultural Property, and the Logic of Possessive Individualism. In The Politics of Culture. Brett Williams, e. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 63-74.

Harvey, David. 1989. Monument and Myth: The Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, pp. 200-228. In The Urban Experience. Baltimore:John Hopkins University Press.

Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. 1983. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kammen, Michael. 1991. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Popular Culture. New York: Knopf.

Levinson, Sanford. 1998. Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies. Durham: Duke University Press.

Lipsitz, George. 1990. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Lowenthal, David. 1985. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge.

Nora, Pierre. 1996-1998. Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, 3 vols. (New York).

Norkunas, Martha K. 1993. The Politics of Public Memory: Tourist Culture, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California. Albany: SUNY Press.

Savage, Kirk. 1997. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth –Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Schwartz, Barry. 2000. Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

Verrey, R. and L. Henley. 1991. Creation Myths and Zoning Boards: Local Uses of Historic Preservation. In The Politics of Culture, Brett Williams, ed. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 75-107.

Journal Articles

Carney, Court. 2001. The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Journal of Southern History v. LXVII, n.3, August: 601-630.

Kropp, Phoebe S. 2001. Citizens of the Past? Olvera Street and the Construction of Race and Memory in 1930s Los Angeles. Radical History Review. Issue 81: 35-60.

Page, Max. 2001. Radical Public History in the City. Radical History Review, 79, Winter: 114-116.

Rothberg, Michael. 2001. W.E.B. DuBois in Warsaw: Holocaust Memory and the Color Line, 1949-1952. The Yale Journal of Criticism. Spring, v14 i1 p169(21)

Alderman, David. 2000. A Street Fit for a King: Naming Places and Commemoration in the American South. Professional Geographer. v 52, n4:672-684.

Armstrong, Karen. 2000. Ambiguity and remembrance: individual and collective memory in Finland. American Ethnologist 27(3): 591-608.

Dwyer, Owen. 2000a. New Memorial Landscapes in the American South: An Introduction. Professional Geographer. v 52 n4:658-660.

Dwyer, Owen. 2000b. Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement: Place, Memory, and Conflict. Professional Geographer. v 52, n4:658-660.

Gable, Eric and Richard Handler. 2000. Public History, Private Memory: Notes from the Ethnography of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. Ethnos, Vol. 65(2): 237-252.

Bogart, Michelle. 1999. Public Space and Public Memory in New York's City Hall Park, Journal of Urban History 25(2): 226-257.

Hodder, R. 1999. Redefining A Southern City's Heritage: Historic preservation Planning, Public Art, and race in Richmond, Virginia. Journal of Urban Affairs. 21(4): 437-453.

Kenny, Michael G. 1999. A place for memory: the interface between individual and collective history. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 41(3) 420-438.

Jorgensen-Earp, Cheryl R. and Lori A. Lanzilotti. 1998. Public memory and private grief: the construction of shrines at the sites of public tragedy. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, May 84(2): 150.

Mitchell, Jon P. 1998. The Nostalgic Construction of Community: Memory and Social Identity in Urban Malta. Ethnos, v. 63 n.1:81-101

Olick, Jeffrey K. and Joyce Robbins. 1998. Social Memory Studies: From "Collective Memory" to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices. Annual Review of Sociology, 1998, 24, 105-140.

Kunz, Diane B. 1997. Remembering the unexplainable: the Holocaust, memory, and public policy. World Policy Journal, Winter 14(4) 45.

Alderman, David. 1996. Creating a New Geography of Memory in the South: (Re)Naming of Streets in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Southeastern Geographer 36:51-69.

Glassberg, David. 1996. Public History and the Study of Memory. The Public Historian. 18:7-24.

Ugresic, Dubravka. 1996. The confiscation of memory. New Left Review, July-August, 218: 26-40.

Johnson, N. 1995. Cast in Stone: monuments, geography, and nationalism. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15:51-65.

Kohn, Richard H. 1995. History and the Culture Wars: The Case of the Smithsonian Institution's "Enola Gay Exhibition." The Journal of American History. December: 1036-1063.

Linenthal, Edward T. 1995. Struggling with History and Memory. The Journal of American History. December: 1094-1101.

Thelen, David. 1995. History after the Enola Gay Controversy: An Introduction. The Journal of American History. December: 1028-1035.

Charlesworth, Andrew. 1994. Contesting Places of Memory: the Case of Auschwitz. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 12(5): 513-634.

Gulley, H. 1993. Women and the Lost Cause: preserving a Confederate identity in the American Deep South. Journal of Historical Geography 19(2): 125-141.

Sandage, S. 1993. A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963. The Journal of American History. June: 135-167.

Radford, J. 1992. Identity and tradition in the post-Civil War South. Journal of Historical Geography. 18(1): 91-103.

Blight, David. 1989. For Something beyond the Battlefield: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War. The Journal of American History March: 1156-1177.

Nora, P. 1989. Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire. Representations Spring 26:7-25.

Thelen, David. Memory and American History. The Journal of American History. March 1989 75(4): 1117-1129.

Book Review Essays

Biel. Steven 1995. The Left and public memory. Reviews in American History, December 23(4): 704-710.

Tai, Hue-Tam Ho. 2001. Remembered Realms: Pierre Nora and French National Memory. American Historical Review. v.106 n.3: 906-922.

Linden, Diana L. 2001. Monumental Acts: American Public Sculpture and the Representation of Race, Gender, and Class. Radical History Review. Issue 81:162-169.