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Monumentality, Ruination, and the Milieux of Memory: Lessons from W. E. B. Du Bois

This essay examines memorial style as a rhetorical "milieu" in which geographies of race and racism are constructed. To do so, I trace W. E. B. Du Bois's turn-of-the-century encounter with antebellum plantation ruin as an instance of historic and still ongoing Black resistance to monu...

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Published in:	Western journal of communication 2023-03, Vol.87 (2), p.281-303
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