{"id":8876,"date":"2020-07-27T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/27\/i-too-am-a-southerner\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:34:07","slug":"i-too-am-a-southerner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/i-too-am-a-southerner\/","title":{"rendered":"I, too, am a Southerner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of protests and conversations over Confederate monuments, Teresa Cosby, a Furman University politics and international affairs professor, pens a column for the Greensboro <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greensboro.com\/opinion\/columns\/teresa-cosby-i-too-am-a-southerner\/article_f6896786-b596-5404-96ea-41bc1bd923ec.html\">News &amp; Record<\/a><\/strong>. A child during the time of school segregation, Cosby writes about Southern heritage and the &#8220;lost cause&#8221; narrative advanced by Confederate monuments and symbols, and by some South Carolina textbooks that were used in classrooms as recently as the 1980s. The problem, she says, is that the &#8220;lost cause&#8221; storyline ignores what Black people lost. &#8220;In clinging to this heritage argument, white Southerners who still insist there is something pure about their history are really clinging to notions of white supremacy,&#8221; she writes.<\/p>\n<p>Cosby holds a J.D. from Howard University and specializes in constitutional law and racial and ethnic politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of protests and conversations over Confederate monuments, Teresa Cosby, a Furman University politics and international affairs professor, pens a column for the Greensboro News &amp; Record. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[363,307,364,365],"class_list":["post-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-lost-cause-narrative","tag-racism","tag-southern-heritage","tag-white-supremacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}