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I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right

  • Written by David Cunningham, Professor of Sociology, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
imageThe Confederate leader Jefferson Davis has new digs in Richmond − a museum where he's displayed prone and paint-splattered.David Cunningham, CC BY-SA

In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate monument now has a meaningful new life, four years after it was toppled in Virginia.

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