The Ambiguities of Memory and Ambivalences of Monuments: Confederate Memorials in America

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Over 150 years after the defeat of the Confederate States of America (CSA), a 21-year-old white male slipped into an evening prayer service on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He drew a Glock .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol and shot twelve people as they implored him not to fire. Nine died, three survived, and he fled only to be captured the next day in North Carolina. An avowed white supremacist, Dylann Roof declared his plan for these murders was to trigger a race war in the United States of America. He was tried…

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