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Thinking from the growing movement of appropriation of statues and monuments through the most varied geographies, Russell Rickford argues that this gesture means not a silencing or abandonment of the past, but an antiracist and anti-colonial positioning in the face of historical and cognitive injustices on the basis of a hegemonic and Eurocentric narrative of modernity.

^{Image: Area surrounding the statue of Robert E. Lee (Richmond, VA) © Mobilus In Mobili via Flickr CC.}