Desegregating the past : the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa
Autry, Robyn.
Desegregating the past : the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa Robyn Autry - New York : Columbia University Press, 2017. ©2017. - 1 online resource (269 pages)
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Museums Visited -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Desegregating the Past -- 1. Memory Entrepreneurs: History in the Making -- 2. The Curated Past: Remembering the Collective -- 3. Managing Collective Representations -- 4. Memory Deviants: Breaking the Collective -- Conclusion: Museumification of Memory -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Robyn Autry 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.
9780231542517
Erinnerung
Gedenken
Museum
Repräsentation
Rassismus
Gewalt
Segregation
USA
Südafrika
South Africa - Race relations - Historiography.
Fernzugriff
Desegregating the past : the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa Robyn Autry - New York : Columbia University Press, 2017. ©2017. - 1 online resource (269 pages)
E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Museums Visited -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Desegregating the Past -- 1. Memory Entrepreneurs: History in the Making -- 2. The Curated Past: Remembering the Collective -- 3. Managing Collective Representations -- 4. Memory Deviants: Breaking the Collective -- Conclusion: Museumification of Memory -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Robyn Autry 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.
9780231542517
Erinnerung
Gedenken
Museum
Repräsentation
Rassismus
Gewalt
Segregation
USA
Südafrika
South Africa - Race relations - Historiography.
Fernzugriff