Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture
by By Karp, Ivan (EDT), Kreamer, Christine Mullen (EDT), and Levine, Steven (EDT)
Category: Business & Economics , Museum Administration & Museology

Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.