ABSTRACT

In response to the 2020 murder of George Floyd amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, protestors, government officials and institutional leaders removed Confederate monuments in the American South at a staggering pace. After extending their gaze to Christopher Columbus, Edward Colston and other monuments, additional removals and promises for removal and/or renaming occurred across the United States and the world. This third wave of the Confederate monument removal craze created an urgency to document and visualize its scope. Drawing on her Monument Removals mapping project, Green provides the numbers, context and spatial understanding of the recent revision to the commemorative landscape in the United States and global Black Lives Matter responses. Anti-black violence has shaped the removal trends from the Charleston Massacre to George Floyd. With over 240 monuments removed in the United States, the third (post-George Floyd) phase, moreover, represents a significant corrective that cannot be easily dismissed, just as the global anti-racist responses cannot be ignored. Green contends that additional scholarly attention is required, especially with regard to the history of monuments and the power dynamics influencing removal. Since communities are still engaged in the revision process, the resulting work has consequence for communities and scholars.

摘要

为应对 2020 年在全球 COVID-19 大流行期间乔治·弗洛伊德 (George Floyd) 被谋杀的事件，抗议者、政府官员和机构领导人以惊人的速度拆除了美国南部的邦联纪念碑。在将目光投向克里斯托弗·哥伦布、爱德华·科尔斯顿和其他纪念碑之后，美国和世界各地发生了更多的移除和移除和/或重命名的承诺。同盟国纪念碑拆除热潮的第三波引起了记录和可视化其范围的紧迫性。借助她的纪念碑移除绘图项目，格林提供了美国纪念景观最近修订的数字、背景和空间理解以及全球“黑人的命也是命”的回应。反黑人暴力塑造了从查尔斯顿大屠杀到乔治·弗洛伊德的清除趋势。在美国移除了 240 多座纪念碑后，第三阶段（后乔治·弗洛伊德）代表了一项不容忽视的重大纠正措施，正如全球反种族主义反应不容忽视一样。格林认为需要额外的学术关注，特别是关于纪念碑的历史和影响拆除的权力动态。由于社区仍在参与修订过程，由此产生的工作对社区和学者具有影响。特别是关于纪念碑的历史和影响拆除的权力动态。由于社区仍在参与修订过程，由此产生的工作对社区和学者具有影响。特别是关于纪念碑的历史和影响拆除的权力动态。由于社区仍在参与修订过程，由此产生的工作对社区和学者具有影响。