Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 1: Real history and partisan history
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I started back in 2004 doing a daily set of posts in April as a counter-celebration of Confederate "Heritage" Month, one of the cultural artefacts of the Lost Cause ideology. Since then, we've seen in the US an encouraging wave of removals of statues and historical markers that functioned as celebrations of segregation and the Lost Cause historical narrative that goes along with it. And now in the midterm election year, the Republican Party is in a full-blown "white backlash" against teaching anything in public schools that might annoy admirers of the Confederacy and its allegedly superior civilization based on human slavery.
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 1: Real history and partisan history
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 1…
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 1: Real history and partisan history
I started back in 2004 doing a daily set of posts in April as a counter-celebration of Confederate "Heritage" Month, one of the cultural artefacts of the Lost Cause ideology. Since then, we've seen in the US an encouraging wave of removals of statues and historical markers that functioned as celebrations of segregation and the Lost Cause historical narrative that goes along with it. And now in the midterm election year, the Republican Party is in a full-blown "white backlash" against teaching anything in public schools that might annoy admirers of the Confederacy and its allegedly superior civilization based on human slavery.