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Curriculum Vitae

 
 

 

Many of my articles on Neo-Confederacy are online and you can read them by clicking on the links on my resume page at this link: Curriculum Vitae

I also blog on the Neo-Confederacy at my blog Anti-Neo-Confederate  http://newtknight.blogspot.com/.

My email esebesta@tx.rr.com

“Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction,” with editors Euan Hague, Heidi Beirich, and Edward H. Sebesta, with Foreword by James Loewen, publication has been announced by the University of Texas Press. The web page for the book is at:

http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exhagneo.html

The web page has a table of contents and the Introduction to the book. Also, you can browse the book.

IN MEMORIAM -- FRED HINSON
Fred Hinson, a Luray, Virginia resident, and an intrepid fighter for the African American experience to be remembered on the landscape has recently passed away at the age of 61. I never meet him, but had occasions to communicate with him by email over many years. Fred well understood the need to oppose the Neo-Confederate mythology and its poisonous impact on social life. His passing is a great loss.

Recently on Nov. 5, 2005 Fred Hinson presided over the commemorative marker for the slave block in the Luray's Inn Lawn Park. He had brought back soil from Nigeria and placed it near the marker and his sister had taken soil from Luray's Inn Lawn Park and taken it to a slave departure point in Nigeria as a symbolic gesture.

Fred Hinson understood the importance of the historical imagination to the formation of social life.

He was a champion for civil rights in his town and area. He was a founder of Page County Concerned Citizens for Equality and he helped initiate the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration in the mostly white Page County School system.

The Times Dispatch of Richmond has an obituary for him for Dec. 4, 2005. Unfortunately I can't supply a permanent link. However, click on Obituaries, and then click on News Obituaries.

Web page about the Slave Block and Fred Hinson.

 

New and noteworthy book,   "Sundown Towns" by James Loewen.  James Loewen's webpage.

It is available at Barnes & Nobles www.bn.com.

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I just got my copy of "Sundown Towns" by James Loewen. It is a book about towns in which African Americans had to be out of town by sundown, hence "Sundown towns."

I have found James Loewen's books to be of great interest and have also purchased "Lies My Teacher Taught Me" about the "history" that is taught in highschools, and "Lies on the Landscape" which is about monuments on the landscape and the social processes around their erection, placement, and their continuing interpretation.

 

Click here for an interesting interview with James Loewen about both books.

Click here for a book review of "Lies Across America."