Manassas
Independent city in Northern Virginia site of the Bull Run battles. It turns up in How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi): Confederate-memorial town where Kendiā€™s family lived; irony of representing Stonewall Jackson High.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | backdrop | Confederate-memorial town where Kendiā€™s family lived; irony of representing Stonewall Jackson High. |
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How to Be an Antiracist ā€” Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
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I would have learned about all those Confederate memorials surrounding me in Manassas, Virginia, like Robert E. Leeā€™s dead army.
- Role: backdrop
- In the book: The family moved from New York City to Manassas in 1997. The author reflects that he would have learned of its Confederate memorials and the Bull Run battlefield if he had read history, and notes the irony of a free Black teen representing Stonewall Jackson High School.
- Why it matters: The Confederate landscape frames his unreflective youth and the irony of the MLK contest; set elsewhere the pointed irony of Stonewall Jackson High would vanish.