Whatever happened to all the heroes?
Keith Lowe, Writer and historian, th author of Prisionieros de la historia: Monumentos y Segunda Guerra Mundial (Galaxia Gutenburg, 2021)
Tag: Black Lives Matter
The Biddy Mason Memorial Park and the Importance of centennial monuments after COVID-19
Los Angeles, located in a region founded on the exploitation of Native Californians by Spanish missionaries and a destination for the Black community during the Second Great Migration, is home to two memorials depicting this great disparity in visibility and historical dialogue — the controversial defaced statue of Spanish missionary Junipero Serra and the memorial park of formerly enslaved and philanthropist Biddy Mason.
Memory-Works: On Memory, Ethics & Architecture
The construction of memorials and museums all over the globe seems significant in the sheer vastness and magnitude of their number, as well as in the significance that these sites of memory may have in, and for, affected communities.
“Memory studies are a fruitful site to think citizenship beyond the bounds of nation-states”
Social networks are just that – networks – webs of transmission that intersect and overlap. Memory also circulates through webs and networks, as different groups define themselves and their identities according to certain understandings of the past, understandings that can conflict with those of other groups. When versions of the recollected past are built and circulate through social media, they are supported by the likes and dislikes, the agreements and disagreements that these platforms enable.