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Jonathan Beecher Field is an associate professor of English at Clemson University, and the author of Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation.
Some on the right insist that efforts to curtail Thanksgiving are in reality sinister attempts to rewrite the country’s history.
Activists fighting to remove statues of slavers and colonizers understand better than most how public memorials can be a form of violence.
Focusing only on Confederate monuments misses that racism is memorialized everywhere.
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