ABSTRACT

How do collective memory and memorialization work in divided societies? This essay takes present-day conflicts over Civil War memorialization as an opportunity to explore linkages between historical interpretations of the causes of the Civil War, attitudes toward Confederate memorials (and their removal), and modern political identities. It provides three cases of collective memorialization in one community – the college town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina – to shed light on physical commemoration and its possibility to invite discussion of the American racial history and the history of slavery.

中文翻译：

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相互矛盾的纪念活动：同盟纪念活动的过去和现在

摘要

集体记忆和纪念活动在分裂的社会中如何运作？本文以当今关于内战纪念活动的冲突为契机，探讨内战起因的历史解释，对邦联纪念馆的态度（及其撤离）与现代政治身份之间的联系。它提供了在一个社区（北卡罗来纳州教堂山大学城）中的三个集体纪念活动的案例，以阐明人身纪念活动及其可能引起美国种族历史和奴隶制历史讨论的可能性。