Controversies of Memory

Dr. Will Kurlinkus

 § Midterms come back tonight

Coming Up § Theory narration is due soon

§ Choosing a final paper topic
 § Mississippi’s state flag included as part of it the
confederate flag

§ The University of Mississippi/Ole Miss used it as their

flag (and still have the rebels as a mascot)

§ What does celebrating the confederacy and the south

The through the confederate flag rhetorically do to people

Confederate of color? That students of colors’ tuition was paying for

these flags?
Flag § What does the confederate flag mean? Is it racist? Is it
racist if it’s used by racists?

§ After years of protest it was money/college football that

started the change (the SEC refused to have tournament
football games played there).
 § What and who is a mascot for?
§ The University of Illinois’ “The Chief” discontinued in
What does it 2007. A white student dancing a madeup war dance in
imitation Sioux clothing.
mean to have a § The mascot was never replaced: how do we create a
troubled mascot? new tradition?

§ What about the sooner? ?

 Design a New Mascot for
OU grounded in Oklahoma