Doctoral Dissertation Research: Memorial Landscapes Dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement

本文研究的重点是对三个纪念民权运动的景观进行比较分析：亚特兰大，伯明翰和塞尔玛。通过比较它们产生的背景、它们提供的权威表征以及游客对它们的解释，本研究探讨了建筑环境中历史记忆与社会身份之间的关系。这项研究包括三个任务：档案研究和访谈，对历史的解释和呈现的分析，以及对游客资料和反应的调查。该提案设置在景观解释和黑人历史旅游（以及更广泛的遗产旅游）的理论背景下，并试图检查种族和种族主义在美国的地位。结果将阐明当代种族政治特征的立场的多样性。

The focus of this dissertation research is a comparative analysis of three memorial landscapes dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement: Atlanta, Birmingham, and Selma. By comparing the contexts in which they were produced, the authoritative representations they offer, and visitor interpretations of them, this research probes the relationship between historic memory and social identity in the built environment. The study involves three tasks: archival research and interviews, an analysis of the interpretation and presentation of history, and a survey of visitor profiles and reactions. The proposal is set in a theoretical context of landscape interpretation and black history tourism (and heritage tourism more generally), and attempts to examine the place of race and racism in the U.S. The results will elucidate the diversity of positions that characterize contemporary racial politics.