Contested histories in public space
Subtitle: memory, race, and nation
By: edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer.
Contributors: Walkowitz, Daniel J.; Knauer, Lisa Maya, 1956-
Series: Radical perspectives; Radical perspectives
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham, [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780822342175; 9780822342366
Subjects: Public history; Public spaces; Nationalism; Race; Postcolonialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Two peoples, one mission: biculturalism and visitor "experience" at Te Papa/"Our Place," New Zealand's new national museum / Charlotte J. Macdonald; title: Contesting time, place, and nation in the First Peoples' Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Ruth B. Phillips and Mark Salber Phillips; title: "Unfinished business": public history in a postcolonial nation / Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton; title: Colonial legacies and winners' tales : exhibiting Asia in Britain : commerce, consumption, and globalization / Durba Ghosh; title: The Alamo : myth, public history, and the politics of inclusion / Richard R. Flores; title: Ellis Island redux : the imperial turn and the race of ethnicity / Daniel J. Walkowitz; title: A cultural conundrum? old monuments and new regimes : the Voortrekker Monument as symbol of Afrikaner power in a postapartheid South Africa / Albert Grundlingh; title: Narratives of power, the power of narratives : the failing foundational narrative of the Ecuadorian nation / O. Hugo Benavides; title: Affective distinctions : race and place in Oaxaca / Deborah Poole; title: Marking remembrance : nation and ecology in two riverbank monuments in Kathmandu / Anne M. Rademacher; title: Saving Rio's "Cradle of Samba" : outlaw uprisings, racial tourism and the progressive state in Brazil / Paul Amar; title: Afrocuban religion, museums, and the Cuban nation / Lisa Maya Knauer; title: Haunting Delgrès / Laurent Dubois.