Enshrining Gender in Monuments to Settler Whiteness: South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and the United States’ This Is the Place Monument

This essay examines two monuments: the Voortrekker Monument in South Africa and the American This is the Place Monument in Utah. Similar in terms of construction and historical purpose, both employ gender as an important tool to legitimize the settler society each commemorates. Each was part of a si...

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Main Authors: Cynthia Prescott, Nathan Rees, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/1/41

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