Title: Monumental Monologues – The ‘Lost Cause Narrative’ as Embodied in Confederate Monuments: The Conservation of White Power in the Built Environment Contributes to Hegemonic Narratives and Inequitable Health Outcomes
Name: Jeylan Turkoglu
Primary Presenters: Jeylan M. Turkoglu and Katelin HJ Princl
College of Nursing
Masters
Faculty Sponsor(s): Dr. Timothy Ehlinger
Literature supports physical, psychological, and social consequences as a result of systemic anti-Black racism and discrimination are measured in areas such as health care, education, criminal justice, housing, employment, and more. The United States was founded on White supremacy ideology. Confederate monuments are enduring symbols of White supremacy and surrogates for an ideology celebratory of the disenfranchisement and oppression of Black Americans. Monuments have an instructive role wherever they are located; they act and tell a story regardless of viewer acknowledgement or consent. All generations of Americans have directly and indirectly been affected by the presence of Confederate monuments in public spaces. The racialized landscapes perpetuated by the presence of Confederate monuments are unwelcoming for, traumatizing to, and physically excluding of Black Americans. The scope of this research is an exploration on the impact of the ‘Lost Cause Narrative’ and mental models of the former Confederate States of America; and the contemporary undercurrent of its insistence through Confederate monuments established in public spaces throughout the United States. The ‘Lost Cause Narrative’ legacy continues due to a layering of seen and unseen themes—revealing a biased and prejudiced, overarching national narrative. The continuing national division on the status of these Confederate monuments in public spaces serve as a catalyst for further objection on who writes the overarching autobiography of the United States. This in-progress research is interested in the systems surrounding the anthology of Confederate monuments—past, present, and future – and the implications for communities to exercise self-determination and the potential to reduce Black and White health inequities.
Keywords: Confederate monuments, Lost Cause Narrative, built landscape, health inequities, anti-Black racism, self-determination
https://sites.uwm.edu/healthresearchsymposium/files/formidable/2/SymposiumReferences.pdf
awesome and timely subject!
Great project!
This is wonderful and really needs to become front and center in the minds of all Americans. Thanks for helping to spur conversations about the real history of our country and the possible path forward.
This is an important perspective, thank you so much for working on this project. Great work!
Great project. I really appreciate the inclusion of art as one of the many things outlined that shows the inequities and power imbalance in the narrative put forth in our surroundings. It is time for that to change!
Great project. I really appreciate the inclusion of art as one of the many things outlined that shows the inequities and power imbalance in the narrative put forth in our surroundings. It is time for that to change!
Very interesting topic. I’m curious to learn more about which systems are studied in this project.
Interesting topic. I am interested to learn the systems that were studied within this project.