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Lifting the shadow: reshaping memory, race, and slavery in U.S. museums

Amy Sodaro
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2025]
Related Series:
Genocide, political violence, human rights
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Summary:
"Lifting the Shadow: Reshaping Memory, Race, and Slavery in U.S. Museums examines a small but significant wave of new U.S. memorial museums that focus on slavery and its ongoing violent legacies, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery's Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and Greenwood Rising, which commemorates the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. These museums are challenging historical narratives of slavery and race by placing racial oppression at the center of American history and linking historical slavery to contemporary racial injustice, but they have opened in a period marked by growing racial tension, white nationalism and political division. Sodaro examines how the violence of U.S. slavery and its lasting legacies is negotiated in these museums, as well as their potential to contribute to the development of a more critical historical memory of race in the U.S. at this particularly volatile sociopolitical moment"-- [Provided by publisher]
Table of Contents:
  • Race and Memory in the U.S. : A Shifting Memorial Landscape
  • Telling "America's Story" : National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • "Shining the light of truth" : The Legacy Museum
  • "After a century of silence" : Greenwood Rising Historical Center
  • America's New Memorial Museums
  • Memory's Present and Future.
Author/Creator:
Sodaro, Amy, 1975- , author
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Lifting the shadow: reshaping memory, race, and slavery in U.S. museums [by Sodaro, A.]
Related Series:
Genocide, political violence, human rights
Subjects:
African Americans — Museums
Slavery in museum exhibits — United States
Collective memory — United States
Racism — United States — History
United States — Race relations — History
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
E185.53.A1 S64 2025eb
ISBNs:
9781978842663 (electronic bk.)
197884266X (electronic bk.)
9781978842632 [Invalid]
1978842635 [Invalid]
9781978842649 [Invalid]
1978842643 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
1458366332
Other Control Numbers:
EBC31196168 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21132483