This study examines the social construction of collective memory regarding American cities. Inspired by postmodern theory, both critical and urban, it argues that, in its efforts to expand its political power, the Conservative Elite has successfully waged a thirty year “mnemonic war” over the public memory of America’s central cities. It describes how in their attack, the Conservatives strategi...

* Most of the work on this volume was accomplished during my stay as Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. I express my deep appreciation of the vibrant intellectual atmosphere at the Center and acknowledge the generosity of the National Endowment for the Humanities which funded my fellowship. I also acknowledge the copyeditor Bela Malik whose intelligence and meticulousne...

Memory is a social phenomenon that inserted in the dynamics of capitalist mode production and its forms regularization relations. It traversed by disputes, since class societies there are several versions history, memories past usually dominant class. The process memory or evocation occurs from set determinations. Evocation oblivion these historical products. Inside movements, struggle around m...