Call the lost dream back
Subtitle: essays on history, race and museums
By: by Lonnie G. Bunch III
Publisher: AAM Press; American Alliance of Museums; American Alliance Of Museums
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781933253176
Description: Lonnie G. Bunch III, historian, author and educator, founding director of the Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture, is one of the museum profession s leading writers and thinkers. In this collection of his work from the mid-1980s to the present, including new chapters written for this book, Bunch presents a personal and passionate view of American history, the Gordian knot of race relations, and the role of the museum in shaping the perspective of a nation.
Table of contents: title: Remembering my past : the wisdom of not trying to fight uphill; title: And I was never the same : my global transformation; title: Standing on the shoulders of history : the election of Barack Obama; title: The pain and power of remembering the Newark riots; title: Embracing ambiguity : the challenge of interpreting African American history in museums; title: J.L. Edmonds : Black propagandist of the California dream; title: In the shadow of uncertainty : museums in the aftermath of 9/11; title: Flies in the buttermilk : museums, diversity, and the will to change; title: Curating the recent past : the Woolworth lunch counter, Greensboro, North Carolina; title: Fighting the good fight; title: The gaigin are coming! : an American curator's odyssey in Japan; title: Embracing controversy : museum exhibitions and the politics of change; title: A past not necessarily prologue : the Afro-American in Los Angeles; title: Allensworth : the life, death and rebirth of an all-Black community; title: In search of a dream : the flight of Herman Banning and William Allen.