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BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Ed Sebesta is an independent researcher. Co-editor of Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The ‘Great Truth’ About the ‘Lost Cause’. Author of chapter about the Civil War and Reconstruction in the notorious Texas teaching standards in Politics and the History Curriculum: The Struggle over Standards in Texas and the Nation. Click here to contact Mr. Sebesta. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble
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The neo-Confederate movement includes a great many academics, writers, journalists, and persons in various institutions. I have sixteen books by neo-Confederates published by the University of Missouri Press in my library.
Some of these books are still for sale from the press. John Sheton Reed’s books are his construction of an illiberal South. He was a founding…
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the impact of Confederate symbols, monuments and other manifestations of Confederate identity, when used by institutions and government, is the normalization of the Confederacy. It sends the message is that the Confederacy isn’t so bad since if it was certainly we would avoid this identity.
Telling a black player, “see, everyone is white on the inside,” after the player cut her leg after sliding into a base.” [3] Rev. Tatum announced…
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The flags and monuments may come down but the neo-Confederate movement is still there. They are still generally not known to the public and they are still having an enormous impact.
PROLOG It is Saturday morning and the media has stopped calling. I have my reference material piled on tables and the ironing board which I am…
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