All Monuments must fall #Charlottesville, by Nicholas Mirzoeff

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1806-5023.2023.e98765

Abstract

More than an aesthetic practice, white supremacists' public monuments express and reinscribe the values ​​of racial hegemony. Nicholas Mirzoeff examines some of the cultural, political, and spatial implications surrounding the construction and removal of these statues.

Author Biographies

Leopoldo Guilherme Pio, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro

Doutor em Ciências Sociais (UERJ/PPCIS)
Professor Adjunto
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Ricardo Pinheiro Almeida, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro

Mestre em Língua Portuguesa (UERJ)
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Língua Portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

References

BENTO, Cida. O pacto da branquitude. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2022.

MIRZOEFF, Nicholas. All the monuments must fall #charlottesville. The Funambulist, 2021.Disponível em: https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/against-genocide/all-the-monuments- must-fall-charlottesville. Acesso em: 10 nov. 2023.

MIRZOEFF, Nicholas. Of slingshots, statues and shacks. Coloniality and the infrastructures

of whiteness. Studi Culturali, [S.L.], n. 2, p. 181-200, 2021.

Published

2024-03-11