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Bringing Down Statues Doesn’t Erase History, It Makes Us See It More Clearly
Enzo Traverso
Jacobin
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The Italian historian Enzo Traverso makes an argument for the iconoclasm of the antiracist movements as a way of critically rethinking the material and symbolic traits of violent pasts, creating public spaces for debates on memory, power and injustice.
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Photo: Statue of Christopher Columbus with his head removed at Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park in Boston, Massachusetts, June 10, 2020 ©Tim Bradbury/Getty Images
