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BOOK
Title Remembering Emmett Till / Dave Tell
Imprint Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021
©2019

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  364 Till engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition Paperback edition
Descript 308 sidor illustrations, maps 23 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
"Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and injustice that became a beacon in the fight for racial equality. The ways this event is remembered have been fraught from the beginning, revealing currents of controversy, patronage, and racism lurking just behind the placid facades of historical markers. In Remembering Emmett Till, Dave Tell gives us five accounts of the commemoration of this infamous crime. In a development no one could have foreseen, Till's murder--one of the darkest moments in the region's history--has become an economic driver for the Delta. Historical tourism has transformed seemingly innocuous places like bridges, boat landings, gas stations, and riverbeds into sites of racial politics, reminders of the still-unsettled question of how best to remember the victim of this heinous crime. Tell builds an insightful and persuasive case for how these memorials have altered the Delta's physical and cultural landscape, drawing potent connections between the dawn of the civil rights era and our own moment of renewed fire for racial justice." -- Publisher's description
Subject Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Anniversaries, etc
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Economic aspects
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
Rasrelationer
Mord
Medborgarrättsrörelser
Murder victims -- Monuments -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History
Murder victims -- Monuments -- Mississippi -- Tallahatchie County -- History
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
Anniversaries.
Civil rights movements.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Murder victims -- Monuments.
Förenta staterna
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social conditions
Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Social conditions
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Race relations
Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Race relations
United States.
Mississippi -- Delta Region.
Mississippi -- Tallahatchie County.
Biografier
History.
Classmark 364.134
Alt Auth Chartier, Brian
Valery, JP
ISBN/ISSN 9780226559674 Häftad
022655967X
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