Lifting the shadow : reshaping memory, race, and slavery in U.S. museums /

"Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S. memorial museums that focus on slavery and its ongoing violent legacies, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery'...

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1. Verfasser: Sodaro, Amy, 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2025]
Schriftenreihe:Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18654626
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : Memory in post-postracial America
  • Race and memory in the United States : A shifting memorial landscape
  • Telling "America's Story" : The National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • "Shine the light of truth" : The Legacy Museum
  • "After a century of silence" : Greenwood Rising
  • America's new memorial museums
  • Conclusion : Memory's present and future.