1. According to Adam Domby, in what ways did “Lost Cause” mythology in North Carolina buttress the Jim Crow system of racial segregation and inequality in the state in the early twentieth century?
2. Domby’s chapter begins by introducing us to the statue of “Silent Sam” at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Recently, this statue has become the subject of considerable protest and debate on UNC’s campus, to the point that student protestors succeeded in tearing it down in 2018. What should be the ultimate fate of the statue? Should it be put back up? Amended? Destroyed? Relocated? Why?