Burning Karen’s Headquarters: Gender, Race, & the United Daughters of the Confederacy Headquarters

Author:

Maurantonio Nicole1

Affiliation:

1. University of Richmond, USA

Abstract

In the early morning hours of 31 May 2020 in Richmond, Virginia, along with graffiti to the monuments lining the city’s historic Monument Avenue, the nearby headquarters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was covered in colorful graffiti and set aflame. This article explores the gendered and raced critiques of the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s memory work communicated by this protest action, using the “Karen meme” as its point of departure. Invocations of “Karen” on Twitter in response to the Richmond protest made pointed arguments about narrative, place, and aesthetics, critiquing not only the Daughters’ role in remembering the Confederacy but the “Southern lady” trope within American public memory. Rather than an oblique reference, the Karen meme, this article argues, underscored Twitter’s potential as a site of anti-racist resistance during times of crisis.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Cultural Studies,Social Psychology

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