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Spaces become marked as race through media representations, policies of the state at different scales, public discourse, and everyday practices. This module asks you to write a particular kind of paper -- a paper that argues for or against a particular stance -- regarding what should be done with the Confederate monuments on Richmond's Monument Avenue.
Week
1
Tuesday
Introduction to Assignment: Data collection, analysis, and final project.
Jonathan Leib. 2002. Separate times, Shared spaces, Arthur Ashe, Monument Avenue, and the politics of Richmond's Symbolic Landscapes. Cultural Geography 9: 286-312
2
Benjamin Wallace Wells. 2017. The Fight Over Virginia's Confederate Monuments. The New Yorker, December 4
Fredericksburg Slave Auction Block
Read these blog posts by John Hennessey of the National Park Service: Fredericksburg's Disputed Auction Block, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and conclusions
3
TBD
Peer Review -- Everyone brings 2 copies of their papers.