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Many of my articles on Neo-Confederacy are
online and you can read them by clicking on the links on my resume page at
this link: Curriculum Vitae
I also blog on the Neo-Confederacy at my blog Anti-Neo-Confederate
http://newtknight.blogspot.com/.
newtknight@windstream.net
“Neo-Confederacy: A Critical
Introduction,” with editors Euan Hague, Heidi Beirich, and Edward
H. Sebesta, with Foreword by James Loewen, publication has been announced
by the University of Texas Press. The web page for the book is at:
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exhagneo.html
The web page has a table of contents and the
Introduction to the book.
| IN
MEMORIAM -- FRED HINSON |
| Fred Hinson, a Luray, Virginia resident, and an
intrepid fighter for the African American experience to be remembered
on the landscape has recently passed away at the age of 61. I never
meet him, but had occasions to communicate with him by email over many
years. Fred well understood the need to oppose the Neo-Confederate
mythology and its poisonous impact on social life. His passing is a
great loss.
Recently on Nov. 5, 2005 Fred Hinson presided over the commemorative
marker for the slave block in the Luray's Inn Lawn Park. He had brought
back soil from Nigeria and placed it near the marker and his sister had
taken soil from Luray's Inn Lawn Park and taken it to a slave departure
point in Nigeria as a symbolic gesture.
Fred Hinson understood the importance of the historical imagination to
the formation of social life.
He was a champion for civil rights in his town and area. He was a
founder of Page County Concerned Citizens for Equality and he helped
initiate the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration in the mostly
white Page County School system.
The Times Dispatch of Richmond
has an obituary for him for Dec. 4, 2005. Unfortunately I can't supply
a permanent link. However, click on Obituaries, and then click on News
Obituaries.
Web page about the Slave Block and Fred Hinson.
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I just got my copy of "Sundown Towns" by James Loewen. It is a book
about towns in which African Americans had to be out of town by sundown,
hence "Sundown towns."
I have found James Loewen's books to be of great interest and have also
purchased "Lies My Teacher Taught Me" about the "history" that is taught
in highschools, and "Lies on the Landscape" which is about monuments on
the landscape and the social processes around their erection, placement,
and their continuing interpretation.
Click here for an interesting interview with James Loewen about both
books.
Click here for a book review of "Lies Across America."
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