Politics of memory : making slavery visible in the public space / edited by Ana Lucia Araujo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Araujo, Ana Lucia, Editor.

Contributor:

Araujo, Ana Lucia.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Routledge studies in cultural history ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Historiography--Social aspects.

Slavery.

Slave trade--Historiography--Social aspects.

Slave trade.

Slavery--Museums.

Slave trade--Museums.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Taylor and Francis 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia - allowing the populations of African descent, organized groups, governments, non-governmental organizations and societies in these different regions to individually and collectively update and reconstruct the slave past. This edited volume examines the recent transnational emergence of the public memory of slavery, shedding light on the

Contents:

Transnational memory of slave merchants : making the perpetrators visible in the public space / Ana Lucia Araujo

Reasons for silence : tracing the legacy of internal slavery and slave trade in contemporary Gambia / Alice Bellagamba

With or without roots : conflicting memories of slavery and indentured labor in the Mauritian public space / Mathieu Claveyrolas

Smoldering memories and burning questions : the politics of remembering Sally Bassett and slavery in Bermuda / Quito Swan

Making slavery visible (again): the nineteenth-century roots of a revisionist recovery in New England / Margot Minardi

Teaching and commemorating slavery and abolition in France : from organized forgetfulness to historical debates / Nelly Schmidt

Commemorating a guilty past : the politics of memory in the French former slave trade cities / Renaud Hourcade

The challenge of memorializing slavery in North Carolina : the unsung founders memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project / René Ater

Museums and slavery in Britain : the bicentenary of 1807 / Geoffrey Cubitt

Museums and sensitive histories : the International Slavery Museum / Richard Benjamin

The art of memory : São Paulo's Afrobrasil Museum / Kimberly Cleveland

Afro-Brazilian heritage and slavery in Rio de Janeiro community museums / Francine Saillant, Pedro Simonard

Exhibiting slavery at the New-York Historical Society / Kathleen Hulser

Museums and the story of slavery: the challenge of language / Regina Faden.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-31315-X

0-203-11907-X

1-283-86226-3

1-136-31316-8

9780203119075

OCLC:

820785396