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- Title
GENDERED GEOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY: PLACE, VIOLENCE, AND EXIGENCY AT THE BIRMINGHAM CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE.
- Authors
POIROT, KRISTAN
- Abstract
Although scholars recognize the importance of recovery projects that aim to recenter women's roles in black freedom struggles, when it comes to these memory practices, the "woman problem" of civil rights memory is more acknowledged than understood. This essay argues that memories of civil rights movements are mapped spatially and rhetorically to depict correlations among Jim Crow contexts and acts of black resistance. The relationship among these spatial and rhetorical configurations is termed the "rhetorical geography of memory." Through an account of the rhetorical geography of memory of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, this essay posits that place, violence, and masculinity animate a relationship between exigency and response, producing a gendered landscape of memory that limits at the outset the conditions and possibilities for women's emergence.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEMORY; GENDER; BIRMINGHAM Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Ala.); GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY of Black women; RHETORIC &; psychology; AMERICAN civil rights movement; COLLECTIVE memory; TWENTIETH century; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2015, Vol 18, Issue 4, p621
- ISSN
1094-8392
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0621