Harriet Tubman, Women on 20s, and Intersectionality: Public Memory and the Redesign of U.S. Currency

Autor:	Calvin R. Coker
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Intersectionality Memorialization 050402 sociology Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Public debate 050801 communication & media studies Gender studies Social justice Femininity Treasury 0508 media and communications 0504 sociology Currency Sociology media_common
Zdroj:	Southern Communication Journal. 82:239-249
ISSN:	1930-3203 1041-794X
DOI:	10.1080/1041794x.2017.1332091
Popis:	This article analyzes representative texts from the public debate surrounding the Treasury Department’s decision to place Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, showing that public memories of Tubman were complicated by an intersectional understanding of her role as a black woman abolitionist. Tubman’s femininity is emphasized to the detriment of her historical significance in a way that complicates Tubman’s relationship to currency as a victim of the slave trade. Using money as a technology of memorialization invites a deeper understanding of Tubman as a black anticapitalist woman, as her placement on money is read by some as ironic. The article concludes with a discussion of the relationship between memorialization and social justice and complications to how money functions as a technology of memory.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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