Maria Seger is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she specializes in nineteenth-century US literature, Black and US ethnic literatures, and critical race and ethnic studies. Her work has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Callaloo, and Studies in American Naturalism. Joanna Davis-McElligatt is assistant professor of Black literary and cultural studies in the Department of English at the University of North Texas, where she is affiliate faculty in women's and gender studies. She is coeditor of Narratives of Marginalized Identities in Higher Education: Inside and Outside the Academy.
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Seger's edited work is valuable to anyone interested in Civil War memory.--Maddie Setiawan "Civil War Monitor" The turbulent events surrounding Confederate monuments represent a long and often-unspoken history of supporting racial violence, through a number of rationalizing narratives linked to white benevolence designed to erase Black counternarratives. This collection provides a novel and timely discussion of the challenges of racial reconciliation through careful attention to the rewriting of Confederate history to position the Civil War as a necessary event and Confederate leaders as passionate patriots.--David F. Green Jr., editor of Visions and Cyphers: Explorations of Literacy, Discourse, and Black Writing Experiences Reading Confederate Monuments invites the broad participation of teachers, artists, writers, activists, and citizens in creating alternative and disruptive pedagogies that do the work of justice and change. This holds out the hope for making other histories and other futures possible.--Ann S. Holder "Public Art Dialogue"