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Desegregating the past : the public life of memory in the United States and South Africa / Robyn K. Autry.
LIBRA E184.65 .A88 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Autry, Robyn K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Historiography.
- African Americans.
- Black people--South Africa--Historiography.
- Black people.
- Racism--United States--Historiography.
- Racism.
- Racism--South Africa--Historiography.
- Historical museums--United States.
- Historical museums.
- Historical museums--South Africa.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States.
- Memory.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Race relations.
- Historiography.
- United States.
- Memory--Social aspects--South Africa.
- United States--Race relations--Historiography.
- South Africa--Race relations--Historiography.
- South Africa.
- Black people--Historiography.
- Race relations--Historiography.
- Racism--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 250 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "A sociological comparison of how South Africa and the United States engage and struggle with the institutionalized racism of their respective pasts through the lens of the development of history museums in both countries"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231177580
- 0231177585
- OCLC:
- 950448526
- Publisher Number:
- 99971067926
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