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Memorializing Pearl Harbor: unfinished histories and the work of remembrance

Geoffrey White
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
Copyright:
©2016
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Summary:
Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II. Analyzing moments in which history is re-presented--in commemorative events, documentary films, museum design, and educational programming.--Geoffrey M. White shows that the memorial to the Pearl Harbor bombing is not a fixed or singular institution. Rather, it has become a site in which many histories are performed, validated, and challenged. In addition to valorizing military service and sacrifice, the memorial has become a place where Japanese veterans have come to seek recognition and reconciliation, where Japanese Americans have sought to correct narratives of racial mistrust, and where native Hawaiians have challenged their ongoing erasure from their own land. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork, White maps these struggles onto larger controversies about public history, museum practices, and national memory. --Cover.
Table of Contents:
  • Survivor voices
  • Cultures of commemoration
  • Memorial film : envisioning race and nation
  • Theming America at war
  • Making a new museum
  • Pedagogy, patriotism, and paranoia.
Author/Creator:
White, Geoffrey M. (Geoffrey Miles), 1949- , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
English.
Main Work:
Memorializing Pearl Harbor: unfinished histories and the work of remembrance [by White, G.M.]
Other Related Resources:
Print version: Memorializing Pearl Harbor [by White, G.M.] (Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 — ISBN 9780822360889; ISBN 9780822361022; LCCN 2015035370; OCLC Number 915120532)
Subjects:
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
World War, 1914-1918 — Monuments — Hawaii
War memorials — Hawaii
Collective memory — United States
Memorialization — United States
Attack on Pearl Harbor (Hawaii : 1941)
World War (1914-1918)
1914-1941
War memorials
Collective memory
Memorialization
Monuments
Hawaii
United States
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) : illustrations, maps
Digital Characteristics:
text file
Call Numbers:
D767.92 .W475 2016eb
ISBNs:
9780822374435 (electronic bk.)
0822374439 (electronic bk.)
9780822360889 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0822360888 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780822361022 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
0822361027 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
938761367