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Podcast: New Books in the American South
Episode: Claire Whitlinger, "Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi" (UNC Press, 2020)
Description: Few places are more notorious for civil rightsâera violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 âMississippi Burningâ murders. Yet in a striking turn of events, Philadelphia has become a beacon in Mississippiâs racial reckoning in the decades since. InÂ ï»żBetween Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi (UNC Press, 2020) Claire Whitlinger investigates how this community came to acknowledge its past, offering significant insight into the social impacts of commemoration. Examining two commemorations around key anniversaries of the murders held in 1989 and 2004, Whitlinger shows the differences in how those events unfolded. She also charts how the 2004 comm...