Research Journal by Saskia Cross

Research Journal by Saskia Cross https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u Topic: Race,Memory,Power en-us 2020-11-11 16:22:14 UTC 2025-11-17 20:07:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Race, Memory and Power Brain Storm: scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913393619 2020-11-11 16:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913393619 Race and status in public areas scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913397235 -Statues
-Plaques
-Tearing down of racist historic figures(Nelson)
-Clash between groups Nationalists/BLM]]> 2020-11-11 16:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913397235 Is History and Memory Important? scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913484607 Yes: Sense of identity from the past. History cannot be forgotten; History is a part of culture and understanding.

-No: History is part of the past and is no longer current to society today. Attitudes and ideologies at that time are outdated and we shouldn’t Judge the past.

]]> 2020-11-11 16:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913484607 Documentaries/Resources scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913487643 -400 Years Taking the Knee
-Black Lives Matter: Rivers of Blood 50 years on
-BBC 3 Free thinking, Black British History]]> 2020-11-11 16:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913487643 Racial Power and Dominance. scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913494740 Forgotten History/ Colonialism.]]> 2020-11-11 16:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913494740 Societies ignorance in one Dominant view that may exclude Other theories/groups.Justice and regaining power.Government control Ideologies scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913497961 2020-11-11 16:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913497961 Ideas for Cultural Artefacts: scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913504927 -Photo of defaced Winston Churchill statue
-Images of BLM Protests
-BLM Banner
-Instagram/Social media/Twitter posts
-Statues:Robert Milligan,Cecil Rhodes,Edward Colston
-Plaques
-Black Cultural Archives]]> 2020-11-11 16:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913504927 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913526468
The social media response to Black Lives Matter: how Twitter users interact with Black Lives Matter through hashtag use

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2017.1334931
6 July 2017
Jelani Ince, Fabio Rojas & Clayton A. Davis

]]> 2020-11-11 16:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913526468 The Case for a Statue of Limitations scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913533951 The debate over what should be done with controversial or offensive statues—whether they be of Edward Colston, the 17th-century British slave trader; Belgium’s King Leopold II, whose brutal reign led to the deaths of millions of Congolese; or Robert E. Lee, the Confederate army commander—

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/statue-monument-united-states-belgium-britain/613390/]]> 2020-11-11 17:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913533951 Frantz Fanon scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913541323 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frantz-Fanon]]> 2020-11-11 17:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913541323 A Tale of Two Civil War Statues scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913548842 This case concerns two of the city’s adjacent 19th century cemeteries, the Elmwood and West Point cemeteries. One of the cemeteries is historically white and contains a recently-added white Confederate soldier statue. The other cemetery is historically African American and contains what is believed to be the region’s only statue of a black Union soldier.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26229034?seq=1]]> 2020-11-11 17:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913548842 Statues are just the start – the UK is peppered with slavery heritage scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913555524 The throwing of a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston into the river in Bristol, UK, by anti-racist protesters has sparked divergent reactions. Bristol councillor Richard Eddy is publicly “outraged”
https://theconversation.com/statues-are-just-the-start-the-uk-is-peppered-with-slavery-heritage-140308]]> 2020-11-11 17:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913555524 The day Bristol dumped its hated slave trader in the docks and a nation began to search its soul scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913563472
When Edward Colston’s statue was toppled, colonialism and national memory became a part of the Black Lives Matter conversation. But what will change in the city?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/14/the-day-bristol-dumped-its-hated-slave-trader-in-the-docks-and-a-nation-began-to-search-its-soul]]> 2020-11-11 17:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913563472 As monuments fall, how does the world reckon with a racist past? scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913568168
Heroes of the past are considered dishonourable today. Should these relics be removed or preserved as mementos of history?
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2020/06/as-monuments-fall-how-does-the-world-reckon-with-a-racist-past]]> 2020-11-11 17:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913568168 Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913572274 This article examines public monuments in London and their relationship to slavery and abolition, a topic that has attracted remarkably little empirical research.
https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/64/1/162/600955]]> 2020-11-11 17:12:15 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913572274 CRITIQUING SCULPTURES OF SUPREMACY: NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF’S “WHITENESS AND THE CRISIS” scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913579838 http://www.c21uwm.com/tennessenscholars/critiquing-sculptures-of-supremacy-nicholas-mirzoeffs-whiteness-and-the-crisis/]]> 2020-11-11 17:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913579838 We need to talk about slavery’s impact on all of us Olivette Otele scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913583712 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/09/slavery-impact-trauma-history]]> 2020-11-11 17:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913583712 AN INTERVIEW WITH MARIANNE HIRSCH scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913588261 “Postmemory” describes the relationship that the “generation after” bears to the personal, collective, and cultural trauma of those who came before
https://cup.columbia.edu/author-interviews/hirsch-generation-postmemory]]> 2020-11-11 17:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913588261 Support for Black Lives Matter has decreased since June but remains strong among Black Americans scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913593955 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/16/support-for-black-lives-matter-has-decreased-since-june-but-remains-strong-among-black-americans/]]> 2020-11-11 17:18:17 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913593955 BLM Protest scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913598487 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/]]> 2020-11-11 17:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913598487 Images scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913603307 Inspiration on topic and possible cultural artefacts]]> 2020-11-11 17:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913603307 https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/global-businesses-embrace-black-lives-matter-movement/ scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913610733 2020-11-11 17:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913610733 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913615240 https://londondanceacademy.co.uk/black-lives-matter/]]> 2020-11-11 17:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913615240 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913619298 https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18522990.fresh-brighton-black-lives-matter-march-planned/]]> 2020-11-11 17:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913619298 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913622780 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/black-lives-matter-protests-took-18419418]]> 2020-11-11 17:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913622780 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913625649 https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/07/15/a-toppled-statue-of-slave-trader-sparked-global-protests-now-a-monument-to-black-lives-matter-occupies-that-plinth/?sh=7cea2efc4619]]> 2020-11-11 17:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913625649 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913636738 https://rmx.news/article/commentary/black-lives-matter-is-like-the-taliban-opinion]]> 2020-11-11 17:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913636738 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913641378 https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/statues-been-removed-around-world-4213046]]> 2020-11-11 17:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913641378 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913646226 https://rmx.news/article/article/blm-protests-can-t-justify-destroying-statues-and-erasing-art-says-hungarian-mep-deutsch]]> 2020-11-11 17:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/913646226 Research Task: Possible Lead questions scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/919774053 Lead Question: How have statues been used to obtain power to suppress and hide cultural pain or memory? (Relates more to power and resistance and is specific with room to delve in deeper to historical context)
-How have statues been used to suppress and hide cultural pain/memory?
-Statues and racial dominance
-Statues and slavery
-Social media and BLM
-Should statues exist and what do they represent
-Racial pain and memory in relation to statues
-How has BLM movement changed society? Brought to light issues that were hidden in the dark or forgotten, neglected etc. People speaking out- silence=violence or compliance.]]> 2020-11-13 11:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/919774053 What do I want to write about? scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/919779807 I would like to possibly write about race and power.In relation to statues and historical figures in society and how true historical context has been hidden such as slavery, mistreatment and racism. How the BLM movement has brought historical pain and memory to light and the changes implemented on society.]]> 2020-11-13 11:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/919779807 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992644011 Police Brutality, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, American protests, UK,Worldwide
Media Coverage]]> 2020-12-07 02:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992644011 Cultural Artefact scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992647313 -Image of Winston Churchill statue defaced by Black Lives Matter protests
-Provoking and impactful image
-Themes that can be explore: status, racism, suppression, historical context and pain]]> 2020-12-07 02:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992647313 Debates on Statues scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992651953 2020-12-07 02:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992651953 Black Lives Matter is like the Taliban scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992655020 Leftist extremists acting like Islamists destroying monuments and cultural heritage are a threat to freedom

https://rmx.news/article/commentary/black-lives-matter-is-like-the-taliban-opinion]]> 2020-12-07 02:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992655020 Black Lives Matter protest: Why was Churchill's statue defaced? scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992657644 Statue of Sir Winston Churchill erected in Parliament Square, Westminster, has been sprayed with graffiti during a Black Lives Matter protest.

It comes after petitions were launched to remove statues of controversial people around London, such as Robert Milligan in West India Quays.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-52972531

]]> 2020-12-07 02:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992657644 A Toppled Statue Of Slave Trader Sparked Global Protests, Now A Monument To Black Lives Matter Occupies That Plinth scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992660043 Weeks after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was unceremoniously toppled and thrown into England’s Bristol Harbour, setting off a global removal of statues representing racist figures, a monument of a Black Lives Matter protester has been mounted on the same plinth by artist Marc Quinn and his team.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/07/15/a-toppled-statue-of-slave-trader-sparked-global-protests-now-a-monument-to-black-lives-matter-occupies-that-plinth/?sh=7cea2efc4619]]> 2020-12-07 03:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992660043 Fanon on Violence and the Person scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992661746 Decolonization is the veritable creation of new men. But this creation owes nothing of its legitimacy to any supernatural power; the “thing” which has been colonized becomes man during the same process by which it frees itself (Fanon 1963: 36-37).

https://criticallegalthinking.com/2016/01/20/fanon-on-violence-and-the-person/]]> 2020-12-07 03:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992661746 Black Skin,White Masks scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992663073 The white man is sealed in his whiteness. The black man in his blackness. There is a fact: White men consider themselves superior to black men. There is another fact: Black men want to prove to white men, at all costs, the richness of their thought, the equal value of their intellect.

https://monoskop.org/images/a/a5/Fanon_Frantz_Black_Skin_White_Masks_1986.pdf]]> 2020-12-07 03:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992663073 “Monuments to historical figures should remain” scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992668370 On 9 April 2015, the University of Cape Town removed a statue commemorating the 19th century British imperialist Cecil Rhodes [Ref: BBC News]. This was the culmination of a month long campaign by both students and academics as part of the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ movement, which argued that Rhodes was more than just a symbol of past oppression

https://debatingmatters.com/topic/monuments-to-historical-figures-should-remain/]]> 2020-12-07 03:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992668370 Articles for topic of interest: 👉 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992671022 2020-12-07 03:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992671022 Lead Questions, Topic,Chosen Cultural Artefact scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992674109 2020-12-07 03:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992674109 When is it right to remove a statue? scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992678541 The problem with statues is that stone or bronze is meant to last forever, but reputations crumble much more easily.

Cecil Rhodes is a classic example.

Earlier, this year the #RhodesMustFall movement succeeded in getting the statue of the diamond tycoon and imperialist removed from the University of Cape Town.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35161671

]]> 2020-12-07 03:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992678541 'Our society is evolving': What historians and activists are saying about the movement to remove statues scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992680647
Historian Julian Hayter said the tearing down of statues is a way of correctly rewriting American history.

https://www.businessinsider.com/confederate-statues-removal-slavery-protests-2020-6?r=US&IR=T

]]> 2020-12-07 03:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992680647 Revere or Remove? The Battle Over Statues, Heritage and History scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992683056 https://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/revere-or-remove-the-battle-over-statues-heritage-and-history/]]> 2020-12-07 03:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992683056 Should Statues Of Historic Figures With Complicated Pasts Be Taken Down? scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992684393 https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/881992636/should-statues-of-historic-figures-with-complicated-pasts-be-taken-down?t=1607310915110]]> 2020-12-07 03:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992684393 When we tear down racist statues, what should replace them? scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992685444 https://www.wired.co.uk/article/topple-racist-statues-uk]]> 2020-12-07 03:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992685444 Essay Formation and Ideas scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992687673 2020-12-07 03:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992687673 Essay: scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992688252 How have statues been used to obtain power to suppress and hide cultural pain or memory?

Introduction: Introduce theme, give context on current issues on racism and statue removal, introduce cultural artefact

Main Body Text:
-Removal of Statues, Cultural context behind statues, Churchills representation cultural artefact, defacement, History and Pain, Slavery and oppression, white ideology, white supremacy, white nationalism, theorists Fanon,Hirsch,Otele,
Mirzoeff

Conclusion: summary of main points, bring in debate and other theories]]> 2020-12-07 03:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992688252 Statue wars: what should we do with troublesome monuments? scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992693618 The global protest movement to tear down urban memorials that reinforce racism is rewriting the very story of our cities. Should any monument be safe?

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/26/statue-wars-what-should-we-do-with-troublesome-monuments]]> 2020-12-07 03:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992693618 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992701878 Importance of cultural pain and memory, heritage, black culture, White ideology , systematic racism, status and racial sub ordinance]]> 2020-12-07 03:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992701878 scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992704695 Power withheld to support white supremacy, institutions that are historically and colonially white]]> 2020-12-07 03:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992704695 Removal of statues for modern society statues are outdated and reflect past times of injustice and suppression of black and other ethnic minorities scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992707052 2020-12-07 03:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992707052 Main Theorists: scross33 https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992714283 -Frantz Fanon
-Olivette Otele
-Marianne Hirsch
-Nicholas Mizoreff]]> 2020-12-07 03:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/scross33/rnwq6nhvz2m0aq7u/wish/992714283