Topic: Confederate Monument Removal, Public History
Title: Bringing Down Monuments to Build Up New Histories
Participants: Daisy Ocampo, Ph.D., Historian. Assistant Professor in California State University San Bernardino
Broadcast Air Date: 07/03/20
Time: 5:15 PM (PST)
Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA
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Discussion Topics:
How is public memory created through public spaces?
How are communities challenging public monuments?
Why was Andrew Jackson called “Indian Killer?”
What is the historian perspective on the current movements to remove public monuments that are perceived as racist?
Public monuments are statements of power?
National monuments signal specific histories that are remembered but also specific histories that are suppressed.
The physical narratives are being re-written to challenge the dominance of colonial histories.
How is history contested?
Why is the figure of Christopher Columbus celebrated in the United States if Columbus did not set foot on the land currently labelled as United States of America?
Are statues like textbooks in their historical function?
Why is Junipero Sera Celebrated in California?
What is role of racial discourse in the analysis of public history?
For some people the statues represent heroes, while for others the same figures represent terrorists.
What were the different reactions to writing on the cross on top of Mount Rubidoux in Riverside?
What was the name of the indigenous village that resided at the base of the place currently called Mount Rubidoux?
Frank Miller and President Taft bought the property to place the cross on top of Mount Rubidoux
ow do you decolonize places and monuments?
What is the difference between Whiteness, White Supremacy and White people?
What is the documented process of manufacturing Whiteness?
