Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves by Kirk Savage.

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage. Princeton University Press, 1997. This book is SO GOOD. The introduction argues that racism in the US is inextricably tied up with the representation of the human body, and the following chapters look at the failure of the US to create memorials to Emancipation, slavery, and the Civil War because of this problem. Fantastic chapters on the Richmond Lee Monument, memorials to Common Soldiers, etc.