Navigating Heir Disputes over the New American South: Confederate Memorials and Media Framing of Black Mayoral Leadership Against Symbols of White Authoritarianism

dc.contributor.authorKing-Meadows, Tyson
dc.contributor.authorAgarwal, Vishakha
dc.contributor.authorNalubula, Priscilla Nakandi
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-11T17:02:07Z
dc.date.available2024-12-11T17:02:07Z
dc.date.issued2024-11-01
dc.description.abstractContrary to what other mayors had done to deal with calls to remove Confederate monuments in their cities, the first Black woman mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina appointed a 2020 commission to evaluate and make recommendations for dealing with the monument controversy. As the state’s largest city and “international gateway” to the New South, Charlotte had long wrestled with tensions over cultural memory. Utilizing a mixed methods “embedded design” case study approach, this article examines quantitative and qualitative data, including an analysis of newspaper articles from The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News & Observer, to ascertain public reaction to the commission. Results show that media accounts often framed the city’s monument controversy as reflecting the locale’s new sociodemographic reality, a euphemism for lingering conflicts in the jurisdiction over cultural memory, heritage claims, electoral representation, race, and monumentality.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors would like to acknowledge technical and administrative support provided by the Department of Political Science at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and by the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University.
dc.description.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/11/594
dc.format.extent25 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2mgdg-hyxo
dc.identifier.citationKing-Meadows, Tyson, Vishakha Agarwal, and Priscilla Nakandi Nalubula. “Navigating Heir Disputes over the New American South: Confederate Memorials and Media Framing of Black Mayoral Leadership Against Symbols of White Authoritarianism.” Social Sciences 13, no. 11 (November 2024): 594. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13110594.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13110594
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/37029
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Political Science
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Student Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC History Department
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
dc.subjectnewspaper analysis
dc.subjectConfederate monuments
dc.subjectwhite supremacy
dc.subjectelections
dc.subjecturban politics
dc.subjectblack leadership
dc.subjectpublic opinion
dc.subjectrace
dc.titleNavigating Heir Disputes over the New American South: Confederate Memorials and Media Framing of Black Mayoral Leadership Against Symbols of White Authoritarianism
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