Doctoral Dissertation Research: Local Variations and National Collective Memory

北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的Kenneth AndrewsRaj Ghoshal这篇论文研究了为什么最近围绕着一些长期埋葬的美国白人对黑人的种族暴力事件而出现了旨在纪念和纠正的社会运动，而其他看起来非常相似的事件却还没有产生这种运动。为了了解这些记忆运动的发展和轨迹，共同PI将完成三种类型的分析。首先，他们将分析1877-1954年间发生的致命的白人对黑人种族暴力事件的数据集，并获得全国新闻报道。这些数据将被用来检查导致记忆的因素-历史种族暴力的死灰复燃。其次，调查员将完成正式的定性比较分析，以解释那些已经出现的项目所采取的不同轨迹。第三，联合PI将在其他州的几个南部州完成采访和档案工作，以更好地了解全国对种族隔离时代暴力的兴趣上升，这是出现具体项目的基础。这个项目提供了几个广泛的理论回报。到目前为止，关于集体记忆发展的研究一直被小样本研究所主导，这些研究已经确定了许多潜在的重要原因，但没有更广泛地调查这些因素的相对重要性、概括性或它们之间的关系。该项目为这一领域带来了一种比较的方法，有助于更系统地了解形成集体记忆的因素。此外，该项目有助于填补一个显著的研究空白，作为为数不多的处理国家集体记忆形成过程中的地方差异的研究之一。更广泛的影响。这项研究将有助于我们理解纪念运动是如何发展的，以及它们所走的不同轨迹。此外，对这种运动的了解程度如何？发展将有助于理解将记忆作为促进公民权利的一项战略的潜在好处和缺点。该项目将通过提供关于对历史性大规模种族暴力的一系列反应的发展和影响的系统的新知识，使社会受益。

SES-1003372Kenneth AndrewsRaj GhoshalUniversity of North Carolina-Chapel HillThe dissertation project studies why social movements aimed at commemoration and redress have recently arisen around some instances of long-buried American white-on-black racial violence, while other incidents that appear very similar have not yet yielded such movements. To understand the development and trajectories of these memory movements the co-PI will complete three types of analyses. First, they will a analyze data set of incidents of fatal white-on-black racial violence that occurred between1877-1954 and garnered national news coverage. These data will be used to examine the factors that lead to memory-resurrection of historical racial violence. Second, the investigator will complete a formal qualitative comparative analysis to explain the divergent trajectories that those projects that have emerged have taken. Third, the co-PI will complete interviews and archival work in several Southern states in other to better understand the national rise of interest in segregation-era violence that underlies the emergence of specific projects. This project offers several broad theoretical payoffs. To date, research on the development of collective memory has been dominated by small-sample studies that have identified many potentially important causal forces, but have not investigated the relative importance of, generalizability of, or relationships between these factors more broadly. The project brings a comparative approach to this field, facilitating a more systematic understanding of the factors shaping collective memory. Further, this project helps to fill a notable research gap as one of the few studies to address local variation in the shaping of national collective memory. Broader Impacts. This research will contribute to our understanding of how commemoration movements develop and the different trajectories they take. Further, knowledge of such movements? development will be useful in understanding the potential payoffs and drawbacks of the use of memory as a strategy in promoting civil rights. The project will benefit society by contributing systematic new knowledge about the development and effects of an array of responses to historic mass racial violence.