{"product_id":"in-open-contempt-irvin-weathersby-9780593299159","title":"In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stirring journey into the soul of a fractured America that confronts the enduring specter of white supremacy in our art, monuments, and public spaces, from a captivating new literary voice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmid the ongoing reckoning over America's history of anti-Black racism, scores of monuments to slaveowners and Confederate soldiers still proudly dot the country's landscape, while schools and street signs continue to bear the names of segregationists. With poignant, lyrical prose, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby confronts the inescapable specter of white supremacy in our open spaces and contemplates what it means to bear witness to sites of lasting racial trauma. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeathersby takes us from the streets of his childhood in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward to the Whitney Plantation; from the graffitied pedestals of Confederate statues lining Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, to the location of a racist terror attack in Charlottesville; from the site of the Wounded Knee massacre in South Dakota to a Kara Walker art installation at a former sugar factory in Brooklyn, New York. Along the way, he challenges the creation myths embedded in America's landmarks and meets artists, curators, and city planners doing the same. Urgent and unflinchingly intimate, \u003ci\u003eIn Open Contempt \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a hopeful reimagining of the spaces in which we can pay tribute to our nation's true history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Irvin Weathersby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593299159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593299159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Viking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Irvin Weathersby","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482761847039,"sku":"9780593299159","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_539795b9-6549-4c8e-b09e-6e65666a356c.jpg?v=1715999424","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-open-contempt-irvin-weathersby-9780593299159","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}