Others, taking a cue from the Charlottesville event — a protest, nominally, of the removal of a Confederate-era statue — were organizing efforts to preserve white heritage symbols in their home regions.
"It's about a piece of the Italian-American heritage — a symbol of how we made a place of our own in this country".
Considers the Byzantine heritage, the "symbols and emblems" of the Petrine baroque, the allegories of court culture, the notion of the picturesque, the "visibility" of "classical" Russian literature and turn-of-the-century culture, and the very possibility of illustrating words with images.
Working closely with our strategic and design partner, Lippincott, we combined elements from Avianca's and TACA's heritage into a symbol that conveys forward movement.
Its title refers to the capital of the pre-Islamic Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BCE), a Unesco world heritage site and symbol of Iranian culture.
True, the Romans built it to keep you out but we could have bulldozed it rather than conserving it as a world heritage site and symbol of how civilisation stops – as if! – at Carlisle.
Cruelty on a horrific scale — slaughter committed in the name of racism and its symbols — has made all talk about the valuable "heritage" of such symbols absurd to all but a very few.
They become symbols of our heritage and when these symbols disappear, our sense of place and who we are is diminished".
The circle, signifying the planet, draws on that peace-symbol heritage (and makes it badge-friendly); the "X" could be read as signifying "extinction"; while the horizontal lines suggest a stylised hourglass, and distinguish it from similar logos, such as that of the X-Men, saying that time is running out.
Gloria J. Baily, director for Diversity and Outreach at East Carolina University-Fine Arts, weighs in: "Good for judge Sotomayor for being proud of her heritage and the symbols of her Latina Culture.
