Desegregating the past : the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa /

"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 remin...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Autry, Robyn K.
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: New York : Columbia University Press [2017]
Reeks:Columbia scholarship online.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/autr17758
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Introduction: Desegregating the past
  • Memory entrepreneurs : history in the making
  • The curated past : remembering the collective
  • Managing collective representations
  • Breaking the collective : memory deviants
  • Conclusion: The museumification of memory.