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- Title
Commemorating Sojourner Truth: Negotiating the Politics of Race and Gender in the Spaces of Public Memory.
- Authors
Mandziuk, Roseann M.
- Abstract
Examines several public campaigns held in the U.S. to commemorate African-American activist Sojourner Truth in relation to questions of race and gender in memorializing processes. Background on the rhetorical practice of public memorializing; Information on several contrasting character portrayals of Truth that dominate popular knowledge and depictions; Significance of the politics of identity in commemorating Truth.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEMORIALS; TRUTH, Sojourner, d. 1883; AFRICAN American women; RACE; GENDER; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept)
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2003, Vol 67, Issue 3, p271
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570310309374772