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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2025]
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| Serie: | Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18654626 |
Sommario:
- 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.