Statue toppling rehistoricizes monuments from the subjugated viewpoint

Evidence

I knew, as I stood in front of the statue of Robert E. Lee, the enigmatic Confederate general, that this too, and the avenue on which it stood, would soon face the fury of this new wave of historians who marched instead of wrote. The currents of change sweeping through America’s streets, with even more tides to come, gave flesh, bone, and voice to what Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe longed for: “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1146

Categorization

• XREF: The Achebe quote and statue-as-history theme resonate with Things Fall Apart’s revisionist project in the reader’s library.
• SEED: The idea of ‘histories who marched instead of wrote’ could anchor an essay on direct-action historical revision versus archival correction.