Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Campus History

Rhondda Robinson Thomas is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University where she teaches and researches early African American Literature. She is author of Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community and Faculty Director of the award-winning Call My Name Project for which she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has published articles and books with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press as well as in African American Review and American Literary History. She is also the research and community engagement coordinator for the Clemson’s Woodland Cemetery Project.

• Introduction The Inextricable Link between Rhetoric and Remembrance in Campus History Projects, Rhondda Robinson ThomasChapter 1 Always Cherokee Land”: Campus History and Indigenous Placemaking in Western North Carolina, Andrew DensonChapter 4 Acknowledging the Legacies of Enslavement in British Universities:Slavery, Abolition, and the University of Glasgow, Stephen MullenChapter 3 Acknowledging Slavery’s Ties to Minnesota’s Public Universities through Historical Markers, Christopher P. LehmanChapter 4 Beyond Kitty’s Cottage: The Double-Containment of Catherine “Miss Kitty” Boyd and Black Commemoration Practices in Oxford, Georgia, Monet Lewis-TimmonsChapter 5 Reckoning with Silent Sam: The Confederate Monument at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cecelia MooreChapter 6 White Memory and White Violence at Elon University, Charles F. Irons Chapter 7 “We Must Stand United”: Re-telling a Radical History of Bronx Community College at the City University of New York, Prithi KanakamedalaChapter 8 Looking Racism in the Face at Clemson University, Charissa Fryberger