Question

Ground 4 Monuments Project cate one local monument or memorial to Hurricane Katrina. In an 600-word paper, analyze the landscape using the research article by Kenneth Foote, "Toward a Geography of Public Memory geographical dimensions of public memory and commemoration". On your webpage, include a one photograph, one map, and your narrative. Cite any sources you use in researching your work, t least including Foote. rescaych orhelc Howlhe coast rememkes katrina Meve uhy 's io like this analyze i tell a bdurt

Answer 1

Monuments project :- we find ourselves permanently tangled in the Civil War's legacy. Specifically, how to remember the war, acknowledge its causes and effects, and honor the men who fought in it. Most notably, this has centered around the monuments to Confederate generals and statesmen. Those who want to venerate and preserve Confederate statues want to preserve Confederate history, and honor their heritage.   

And they're right. Heritages should be remembered - in historical whole, good, bad, and ugly. History should be preserved - accurately and faithfully. This is why our mission is to research the history and genealogy of slaves stolen and imprisoned at the plantations of Confederate heroes. Once the slaves have been named and numbered to the greatest extent historical source material will permit, we will build equal and co-located monuments in their honor.

Our two cultures and ancestors existed side by side in flesh and bone, and should do the same in plaster and bronze. This is a critical component of this project. Any offer to erect slave monuments far from those of their masters is to render them out of context, and only serves to further sanitize an unpleasant topic.

We want to build monuments, but we also want to open a productive conversation around this. If you agree that history should be preserved and heritage honored, please join us in this important work. If you do not, please consider why one culture should be preserved, defended, and honored while the other should not. The Monument Project only exists to follow the well established imperatives that ancestors are heroes deserving of respectful public memorials, and history should not be erased or ignored.

We have collectively operated under a polite understanding that the Confederacy and its avatars should be honored in the name of historical and cultural accuracy, and we've never taken the conversation to its logical conclusion: honoring ancestors is something we all have a right and duty to do. We never continued to ask where the interest in historical and cultural accuracy should stop, nor have we asserted equal space for slave ancestors on the same premises. America should no longer accept this as a static, unspoken assumption. Those who want this polite understanding to continue should be compelled to speak up and demand it out loud and in public.