Remembering Enslavement : Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum / Amy E. Potter [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Amy E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical museums--Southern States.

Historical museums.

Slavery--Southern States--Historiography.

Slavery.

Plantation life--Southern States--Historiography.

Plantation life.

Historic sites--Southern States.

Historic sites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University of Georgia Press

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]

Biography/History:

Amy E. Potter is associate professor of geography at Georgia Southern. She is the coauthor of Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies. Stephen P. Hanna is professor of geography at the University of Mary Washington. He is the coauthor of Mapping Tourism and Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Research Methodologies. Derek H. Alderman is professor of cultural and historical geography at the University of Tennessee. He is the coauthor of The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place and Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory. Perry L. Carter is associate professor of geography at Texas Tech University. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Heritage Tourism and Urban Geography. Candace Forbes Bright is assistant professor of sociology at East Tennessee State University. She is the author Conceptualizing Deviance: A Cross-Cultural Social Network Approach to Comparing Relational and Attribute Data. David L. Butler is professor of geography and vice provost for research and dean of graduate studies at Middle Tennessee State University.

Summary:

"Remembering Enslavement explores plantation museums as sites for contesting and reforming public interpretations of slavery in the American South. Emerging out of a three-year National Science Foundation grant (2014-17), the book turns a critical eye toward the growing inclusion of the formerly enslaved within these museums, specifically examining advances but also continuing inequalities in how they narrate and memorialize the formerly enslaved. Using assemblage theory as a framework, Remembering Enslavement offers an innovative approach for studying heritage sites, retelling and remapping the ways that slavery and the enslaved are included in southern plantation museums. It examines multiple plantation sites across geographic areas, considering the experiences of a diversity of actors: tourists, museum managers/owners, and tour guides/interpreters. This approach allows for an understanding of regional variations among plantation museums, narratives, and performances, as well as more in-depth study of the plantation tour experience and public interpretations. The authors conclude the book with a set of questions designed to help professionals reassemble plantation museum narratives and landscapes to more justly position the formerly enslaved at their center."--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

The unreconciled place of slavery in America

Plantation museums as assemblages

Examining the southern plantation museum assemblage

Scarcity along Virginia's James River

Edutainment and segregation in Charleston, South Carolina

Change and continuity along Louisiana's River Road

Centering the enslaved at Whitney and McLeod plantations

Reassembling the Southern plantation museum : a reckoning

The transformation continues.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-6813-X

0-8203-6095-3

OCLC:

1303666059