Abstract
“Creole” is a global term; it is boundaryless, a nexus of language, culture, ethnicity, and geography that makes transparent the contacts and confluences of human history. The U.S. South certainly functions in this way: a landscape imbued with the history of colonization, slavery, and Civil War that forced different cultures and communities together, often violently. Historical placards and monuments often mark these moments of convergence, and in doing so, either make space for previously untold or whitewashed narratives or reinforce the old violence by re-casting colonizers, slave owners, and others who benefitted from and supported institutional slavery as heroic figures. Ideology merges with topography, casting long shadows over communal spaces, influencing the way we think about the past and see ourselves within it.
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