Emerging memorial landscapes of labor conflict in the cotton textile south

While research into the formation of memorial landscapes ill the American S outh has focused on those resulting from racial conflicts, a new landscape memorializing labor conflict and class consciousness is also emerging in th e region's textile-producing Piedmont. This memorialization poses significa nt challenges to dominant regional discourses of economic development and c lass mutuality in a region in which labor organizing and radical politics r emain anathema. This paper examines this emerging landscape for what it can tell us about class relations in the region and the process by which memor ial landscapes are formed.