Race, Civil War Memory, and Sisterhood in the Woman's Relief Corps

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dc.contributorPurdue Universityen
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, John C.en
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen
dc.coverage.temporal1870-1900en
dc.coverage.temporal1883en
dc.coverage.temporalLate 19th centuryen
dc.coverage.temporalEarly 20th centuryen
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-13T03:30:23Zen
dc.date.available2016-09-13T03:30:23Zen
dc.date.issued2015-11en
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the intersections of race and the public remembrances of the American Civil War in the Woman's Relief Corps (WRC), auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). It specifically examines the role of slavery, emancipation, and sectional reconciliation in the WRC's discourse about the meaning of the conflict, and how Jim Crow-era racial ideology influenced the scope and effectiveness of African American members within the organization. The extent to which the model of black and white comradeship in the GAR affected the WRC's racial and commemorative policies and objectives will also be considered. Finally, the paper draws lessons from the WRC's experience grappling with issues of race, memory, reconciliation, and the role of veterans and women in memorialization with our own experience in observing the Civil War's sesquicentennial.en
dc.description.notesPresented at Race and/or Reconciliation, the Third Conference on Veterans in Society, which took place in Roanoke, VA from November 12-14, 2015.en
dc.description.notesConference hosted by the Center for the Study of Rhetoric in Society, Department of English http://www.rhetoric.english.vt.edu/en
dc.format.extent12 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierKennedy_Race_Civil_War_Memory_and_Sisterhood_in_the_Womans_Relief_Corps.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/72932en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.ispartofRace and/or Reconciliation, the Third Conference on Veterans in Societyen
dc.relation.urihttp://veteransinsociety.wordpress.com/en
dc.relation.urihttp://www.rhetoric.english.vt.edu/en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderKennedy, John C.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRaceen
dc.subjectWoman's Relief Corpsen
dc.subjectGrand Army of the Republicen
dc.subjectCivil War memoryen
dc.subjectUnionen
dc.subjectEmancipationen
dc.subjectReconciliationen
dc.subjectViSen
dc.subjectVeterans in Societyen
dc.subjectRace and/or Reconciliation, the Third Conference on Veterans in Societyen
dc.titleRace, Civil War Memory, and Sisterhood in the Woman's Relief Corpsen
dc.typePresentationen
dc.typeConference proceedingen
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