TY  - GEN
T1  - Desegregating the past : the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa
T2  - Columbia scholarship online.
A1  - Autry, Robyn K.
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn967537589
AB  - "At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, visitors confront the past upon arrival. They must decide whether to enter the museum through a door marked 'whites' or another marked 'non-whites.' Inside, along with text, they encounter hanging nooses and other reminders of apartheid-era atrocities. In the United States, museum exhibitions about racial violence and segregation are mostly confined to black history museums, with national history museums sidelining such difficult material. Even the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is dedicated not to violent histories of racial domination but to a more generalized narrative about black identity and culture. The scale at which violent racial pasts have been incorporated into South African national historical narratives is lacking in the U.S. 'Desegregating the Past' considers why this is the case, tracking the production and display of historical representations of racial pasts at museums in both countries and what it reveals about underlying social anxieties, unsettled emotions, and aspirations surrounding contemporary social fault lines around race. Robyn Autry consults museum archives, conducts interviews with staff, and recounts the public and private battles fought over the creation and content of history museums. Despite vast differences in the development of South African and U.S. society, Autry finds a common set of ideological, political, economic, and institutional dilemmas arising out of the selective reconstruction of the past. Museums have played a major role in shaping public memory, at times recognizing and at other times blurring the ongoing influence of historical crimes. The narratives museums produce to engage with difficult, violent histories expose present anxieties concerning identity, (mis)recognition, and ongoing conflict."--JSTOR website (viewed February 24, 2017)
OP  - 250
CN  - E184.65
SN  - 9780231542517
SN  - 0231542518
SN  - 9780231177580
SN  - 0231177585
KW  - African Americans : Historiography.
KW  - Black people : South Africa : Historiography.
KW  - Racism : United States : Historiography.
KW  - Racism : South Africa : Historiography.
KW  - Historical museums : United States.
KW  - Historical museums : South Africa.
KW  - Memory : Social aspects : United States.
KW  - Memory : Social aspects : South Africa.
KW  - United States : Race relations : Historiography.
KW  - South Africa : Race relations : Historiography.
KW  - Noirs américains : Historiographie.
KW  - Racisme : États-Unis : Historiographie.
KW  - Racisme : Afrique du Sud : Historiographie.
KW  - Histoire : Musées : États-Unis.
KW  - Histoire : Musées : Afrique du Sud.
KW  - États-Unis : Relations raciales : Historiographie.
KW  - Afrique du Sud : Relations raciales : Historiographie.
KW  - Personnes noires : Afrique du Sud : Historiographie.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Sociology : General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Black Studies (Global)
KW  - African Americans : Historiography
KW  - Black people : Historiography
KW  - Historical museums
KW  - Memory : Social aspects
KW  - Race relations : Historiography
KW  - Racism : Historiography
KW  - South Africa
KW  - United States
ER  -