Politics of memory
Subtitle: making slavery visible in the public space
By: edited by Ana Lucia Araujo
Series: Routledge studies in cultural history -- 17
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415526920; 9780203119075
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Slave trade; Social aspects; Museums; Musems; Slavery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transnational memory of slave merchants : making the perpetrators visible in the public space / Ana Lucia Araujo; title: Reasons for silence : tracing the legacy of internal slavery and slave trade in contemporary Gambia / Alice Bellagamba; title: With or without roots : conflicting memories of slavery and indentured labor in the Mauritian public space / Mathieu Claveyrolas; title: Smoldering memories and burning questions : the politics of remembering Sally Bassett and slavery in Bermuda / Quito Swan; title: Making slavery visible (again): the nineteenth-century roots of a revisionist recovery in New England / Margot Minardi; title: Teaching and commemorating slavery and abolition in France : from organized forgetfulness to historical debates / Nelly Schmidt; title: Commemorating a guilty past : the politics of memory in the French former slave trade cities / Renaud Hourcade; title: The challenge of memorializing slavery in North Carolina : the unsung founders memorial and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project / René Ater; title: Museums and slavery in Britain : the bicentenary of 1807 / Geoffrey Cubitt; title: Museums and sensitive histories : the International Slavery Museum / Richard Benjamin; title: The art of memory : São Paulo's Afrobrasil Museum / Kimberly Cleveland; title: Afro-Brazilian heritage and slavery in Rio de Janeiro community museums / Francine Saillant, Pedro Simonard; title: Exhibiting slavery at the New-York Historical Society / Kathleen Hulser; title: Museums and the story of slavery: the challenge of language / Regina Faden.