Consequential Museum Spaces: Representing African American History and Culture - Couverture rigide

Carbonell, Bettina Messias

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1666919543 ISBN 13 : 9781666919547

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2023

Synopsis

In Consequential Museum Spaces: Representing African American History and Culture, Bettina Messias Carbonell examines how African American history and culture is-and historically has been-represented in culturally specific and mainstream museums. Carbonell argues that African American museums provide a corrective history that is both argumentative and pragmatic: these museums educate and enlighten, and they seek to effect change. Themes examined here include settlement narratives; key movements and individuals in political, social, and military history; the treatment of slavery includingthe African, transatlantic, and American slave trade and the long history of slavery as an institution in the United States; the status of Africa-the continent and individual countries and regions-as a source of origins and traditions and a destination for reconnection with the past; and activism and human rights. Carbonell considers this museum-based work in the context of relevant historical (written) texts and in the context of contemporary theories involving memory and history, corrective history, intergenerational trauma, human rights, and historical consciousness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bettina Messias Carbonell is associate professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1666919543
• ISBN 13: 9781666919547
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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