Lessons from the Soviet past: How a Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South
By Jordan Brasher, Doctoral Candidate in Geography at University of Tennessee; and Derek H. Alderman, Professor of Geography at University of Tennessee An estimated 114 Confederate symbols have been removed from public view since 2015. In many cases, these cast-iron Robert E. Lees and Jefferson Davises were sent to storage. If the aim of statue removal is to build a more racially just South, then, as many analysts have pointed out, putting these monuments in storage is a lost opportunity. Simply unseating Confederate statues from highly visible public spaces is just the first step in a much longer process...
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