maya lin thesis

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Maya Lin’s Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama represents the second memorial boom by using a memorial to change the culture, but with new ideologies attached to it.

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 We can use Masa’s story of the New Haven Holocaust Memorial and his argument of the “Americanization of the Holocaust” to understand how Maya Lin’s memorial is emblematic of the second memorial boom.

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 Upton helps us understand this shift through his idea of the “democratization of monument building,” where the focus moved away from glorifying individual heroes to recognizing collective struggle.

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 Like many other memorials in this period, Lin’s memorial reshaped questions about race and prejudice in American culture by using new and symbolic memorial designs that created a reflective and participatory space that redefines how we commemorate.