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This chapter focuses on the views of the grassroots “Take ‘Em Down, Nola!” Coalition and their explicitly decolonial approach to urban fallism, which starkly contrasts the city administration in New Orleans’s limited neoliberal multicultural approach to removals. The chapter examines the political activism and published rhetoric of the movement to examine the coalition’s worldview and arguments about how far monument removal should go, namely beyond the Confederacy to include ALL symbols of white supremacy and settler colonialism, including the genocidal, anti-Native, slaveholder, General Andrew Jackson, as well as ideas about who ought to replace him as the namesake of Jackson Square.
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Akbari, S.B. (2024). “Symbols AND Systems!” The Take ‘Em Down, NOLA’s Decolonial Approach to Memory Work”. In: Eaves, L.E., Nast, H.J., Papadopoulos, A.G. (eds) Spatial Futures . Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9761-9_7
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